Hi guys, I’m new to OpenSuse and can’t connect with wireless now. If I go to YaST Control Center - Network Devices - Network Settings, I can see my wireless card there, I’m trying to configurate it with ifup. If I edit it, I can scan networks and they will show on ESSID, so apparently is partially working, but if I disconnect the ethernet cable, I can’t connect anymore.
Here’s some info I got by following the stickies:
sbin/lspci:
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485
Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
/sbin/lspci -n:
03:00.0 0280: 168c:0032 (rev 01)
/usr/bin/iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=16 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on
/usr/bin/iwlist scan
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1A:2B:53:06:04
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=58/70 Signal level=-52 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"JAZZTEL_2A"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000002d6e4d22bc
Extra: Last beacon: 65ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000A4A415A5A54454C5F3241
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 03010B
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 2F0100
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: DD06001018020004
. . .There are more cells . . .
/usr/sbin/rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Hope you guys can help me with this because I wouldn’t like going back to ubuntu -_-
On 10/17/2013 08:56 AM, unspokenlc wrote:
>
> Hi guys, I’m new to OpenSuse and can’t connect with wireless now. If I
> go to YaST Control Center - Network Devices - Network Settings, I can
> see my wireless card there, I’m trying to configurate it with ifup. If I
> edit it, I can scan networks and they will show on ESSID, so apparently
> is partially working, but if I disconnect the ethernet cable, I can’t
> connect anymore.
>
> Here’s some info I got by following the stickies:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> sbin/lspci:
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485
> Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
>
> /sbin/lspci -n:
> 03:00.0 0280: 168c:0032 (rev 01)
>
> /usr/bin/iwconfig
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
> Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=16 dBm
> Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Power Management:on
>
> /usr/bin/iwlist scan
>
> Cell 01 - Address: 00:1A:2B:53:06:04
> Channel:11
> Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
> Quality=58/70 Signal level=-52 dBm
> Encryption key:on
> ESSID:“JAZZTEL_2A”
> Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
> 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
> Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
> Mode:Master
> Extra:tsf=0000002d6e4d22bc
> Extra: Last beacon: 65ms ago
> IE: Unknown: 000A4A415A5A54454C5F3241
> IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
> IE: Unknown: 03010B
> IE: Unknown: 2A0100
> IE: Unknown: 2F0100
> IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
> IE: Unknown: DD06001018020004
>
>
>
> . . .There are more cells . . .
>
> /usr/sbin/rfkill list
>
> 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
> Soft blocked: no
> Hard blocked: no
> 1: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
> Soft blocked: no
> Hard blocked: no
>
>
>
> --------------------
>
>
> Hope you guys can help me with this because I wouldn’t like going back
> to ubuntu -_-
I wouldn’t you to go back either.
I do not recommend using ifup to control wireless, but if you really want to,
then you need to check file /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 to make certain
you got everything right when you did the configuration. If you have questions
about the parameters, check /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg.template for
descriptions of them.
I have been doing wireless with openSUSE since 2005, which was before
NetworkManager was available, and it still takes me several tries to get the
configuration file done correctly when I need to use ifup. That is why I
recommend using NM for wireless.
lwfinger](https://forums.opensuse.org/members/lwfinger.html) , thx for the reply, I just went to ifup since I didn’t manage to edit the device with User Controlled with Network Manager activated, so as long as I can get the wireless working, I’m more than happy.
So long, if I go to bottom right and open Network Management - Manage Connection, I can’t click on the wireless tab. I kept seeing people talking about Network Manager, so i installed knetworkmanager (is that the right one), when I run it, in edit connections - New connection (wireless), I can’t see any network.
I’m pretty new to linux, and just got to OpenSUSE, so maybe I’m missing something really basic, since from the YaST - Network Devices - Network Settings I can scan for networks if I go to ifup mode.
No, knetworkmanager is the old KDE3 program that’s not maintained since years. I don’t know if it even works…
The KDE4 networkmanagement plasmoid should be installed by default. Just right-click on the small green up-arrow in the system try (just left of the digital clock), select “System Tray Settings” and enable it there. You should then have the networkmanagement icon in the system tray.
If you can’t find it there, install the package “plasmoid-networkmanagement”.
Thx wolfi323](https://forums.opensuse.org/members/wolfi323.html), but as I said, first thing I tried was to configure wireless in Network Management, which as you said, came installed and already in the System Tray, but the Wireless tab is grayed out, so I don’t know how to connect from it.
Edit: I’m starting to think it’s something really basic I’m missing. From reading more about Network Management, it won’t show anything if I didn’t configure the wireless network before hand (which I have not done).
I can’t click on show more option, so probably there’s something I’m missing.
Is Network and Wireless enabled there? (left-bottom of the popup)
Can you click on “Add…”->“Wireless” in the “Manage Connections” Wireless tab?
It’s normal that the tab is greyed out if no wireless connections are configured.
Enable networking is activated, but nothing shows in either Interfaces or connections. If I go to manage connections I can’t add, delete or edit under wired tab, and every other tab but VPN is grayed out. If I go to VPN, I can add and import, so guess thats working, but then wired goes grey too, and I can’t configure anything -_-
On 10/17/2013 11:56 AM, wolfi323 wrote:
>
> unspokenlc;2591838 Wrote:
>> Enable networking is activated, but nothing shows in either Interfaces
>> or connections. If I go to manage connections I can’t add, delete or
>> edit under wired tab, and every other tab but VPN is grayed out. If I go
>> to VPN, I can add and import, so guess thats working, but then wired
>> goes grey too, and I can’t configure anything -_-
> VPN is something completely different than WLAN (althogh you can use it
> over WLAN as well of course… ).
>
> Hm, are you sure NetworkManager is running?
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> systemctl status network.service
> --------------------
The wireless option in the NM applet will be grayed out if anything is
preventing the driver from completing the formation of a wlan device. As you can
scan, all of the necessary conditions are met.
That resolved it, but then system started to freeze randomly every 10 minutes, even on this awful windows 8, and after a while trying to recover system with no success on either window or SUSE end, i did a clean install of openSUSE again, and for now its working correctly
).