I have installed Opensuse 11, and haven’t a terrible time getting the wireless working. I can get it working just fine with no security setup on my wireless router. But the moment I enable WEP OPEN or WEP SHARED KEY, 128bit, it doesn’t do anything.
It will attempt to connect, finds the signal… prompts for the KEY, and that’s it. I can see it get the IP from the router, but it doesn’t stay connected.
Here’s some details:
lspci doesn’t return anything regarding the wireless card.
@linux-qo1g:~> lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187 Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
By default, the install found the device. I’ve tried using ndiswrapper and got the same results…
I don’t have the answer but have pretty much the same problem. I really hope someone can answer as the migration I made to OpenSUSE is becoming less convincing by the fact it can’t connect wireless
The sad fact is that openSUSE doesn’t even try to do wireless ‘out-of-the-box’
Once you realize that fact, it isn’t really that bad. If you haven’t patched
your installation yet, and have a wired-ethernet-connection working, do that FIRST!
(There have been some patches to ‘network-manager’ that will make
getting wireless working much easier.)
For starters, you posted in the incorrect forum, which is understandable.
You want the ‘wireless forum’ which is a sub-forum of this one.
Once there, read the ‘sticky’ posts at the top of that forum. And, browse around…search for someone who has already posted with the same device that you have.
[And, if you ever want to test-drive a Linux distro that DOES try to do wireless
right out-of-the-box, take ‘Mepis’ LiveCD for a test-drive. :)]
Thanks for the note. I will check the stickies and repost if needed.
I understand that Opensuse isn’t going to be working out of the box. And yes, the first thing I did was connected to wired connection (which worked fine) and do updates all across the board.
What seems really odd to me is that I can connect to unsecure networks, but nothing with WEP OPEN, WEP SHARED, etc.
Curious how this plays a part. I would like to have support for WPA authentication, but if that will resolve it, I can get by without WPA. Most networks I connect to are WEP.
Yes, I read alot of the other posts. There weren’t many ‘straight-forward’ fixes for the issue.
I installed some packages and am now getting connected once and awhile. I reboot, and it doesn’t work again. I have to rerun the ‘Network Settings’ to get it working.
Packages installed:
kernel-default
ndiswrapper-kmp-default
compat-wireless-kmp-default
wireless-tools
win98 driver through ndiswrapper
Default installed pae kernel. Not sure what the advantage is for that, verses the default kernel. Can’t seem to get it working on pae kernel.
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> Thanks for the note. I will check the stickies and repost if needed.
>
> I understand that Opensuse isn’t going to be working out of the box.
> And yes, the first thing I did was connected to wired connection
> (which worked fine) and do updates all across the board.
>
> What seems really odd to me is that I can connect to unsecure networks,
> but nothing with WEP OPEN, WEP SHARED, etc.
>
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Most of my problems connecting to WEP networks was the fact that the Yast
module defaulted to ‘passphrase’, where my WEP key was actually
“hexadecimal”. Other than that and my own fat-finger typing skills
introducing errors… haven’t had any issue. Please check to make sure
you’re putting your WEP key in with ‘hexadecimal’ mode.
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:36:01 GMT
> bahjons <bahjons@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks for the note. I will check the stickies and repost if needed.
> >
> > I understand that Opensuse isn’t going to be working out of the box.
> > And yes, the first thing I did was connected to wired connection
> > (which worked fine) and do updates all across the board.
> >
> > What seems really odd to me is that I can connect to unsecure networks,
> > but nothing with WEP OPEN, WEP SHARED, etc.
> >
> >
>
> Most of my problems connecting to WEP networks was the fact that the Yast
> module defaulted to ‘passphrase’, where my WEP key was actually
> “hexadecimal”. Other than that and my own fat-finger typing skills
> introducing errors… haven’t had any issue. Please check to make sure
> you’re putting your WEP key in with ‘hexadecimal’ mode.
>
> Loni
>
Oh, add to that… I don’t use Knetwork-manager to connect to wifi networks.
I understand it’s gotten better, but the reports still come in that it’s
often … frustrating. I’ve always changed the network ssid/wep from the
Yast network module:
(as root)
yast2 lan
would bring up the netwok settings module directly
Thanks for the suggestions.
I am actually copying the WEP Key directly from an email.
And made sure that I select HEX, and SHARED KEY. For laughs I even switched to OPEN KEY. I was getting the same results.
However, I think it’s mostly working now, after installing all the packages that I mentioned before.
Next question: non-broadcasted SSIDs… I have them setup in the system as saved connections, with auto connect, but it’s not connecting. I also tried iwconfig to manually connect. That didn’t work. Just a note, these are non-broadcasted, unsecure networks. Any thoughts?
I’m really giving Opensuse a workout in the WIFI area.
And yes, the first thing I did was connected to wired connection (which worked fine) and do updates all across the board.