Intel Centrino Wireless Card Fell from Grace

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1

In various Linux distros and openSUSE versions, my Intel Centrino Wireless N 1030 wireless card worked perfectly fine until a few days ago. It reports that I am connected to various Wifi networks but does not give me an internet connection. I have tried rebooting and turning the wireless card off and on, but it still doesn’t work. I’ll check to see if any packages related to my Wi-Di card were recently changed.

It still works in my Windows 7 installation, but I don’t care for Windows’s occasional freezes and performance rot that I am too lazy to fix. Is there any way to fix this?

2

I saw there were some packages upgraded that were related to my Wi-Fi about the last time my Wi-Fi worked. Does anyone know of any particular bugs in any recent updates or of subsequent updates to fix that? Also, is there an easy way to list packages by when they were last modified so I can revert the suspected updates?

3

This should lists the last 50 packages installed

head -n 50 < <(rpm -qa --last)

Note that syntax is bashism

A more portable code is

rpm -qa --last | head -n 50

you can even list the date/time when a package is installed

rpm -qa --queryformat  '(%{installtime:date}) %{name}
'

Then pipe it to grep or awk for a certain pattern like package name or a certain date.

rpm -qa --queryformat  '(%{installtime:date}) %{name}
' | grep bash

rpm -qa --queryformat  '(%{installtime:date}) %{name}
' | grep ^'(Thu'

Also

/var/log/zypp/history

is useful too, you just need to parse it.

4

Thanks for the help that you all have given so far - but I was stuck on using this laptop as a training machine for another distro my school, and will replace this install of openSUSE with CentOS 6.6. Thanks for any help you gave - Don’t worry, my main distro on my desktop and for having a lot of fun is still (and always will be) openSUSE.