I have (at least) 3 different laptops:
A Toshiba R500 with Intel 3945, a Dell D620 with Intel 3945 and
a Dell X300 with Intel 2200.
The following is true and “double-verified” for all three of them!
I install Opensuse-11.1 (with KDE-4) and the (K)Networkmanager is working
“out of the box”: I click it, setup my wireless LAN (with old WEP-“security”)
and get one or two IP-addresses (DHCP) depending whether the eth0-cable is
attached or not. Network access is without problems.
I install Opensuse-11.2 or 11.3 and the only way to get wireless working
is to switch to the old ifup method and disable the networkmanager,
though I can “scan” and see all the wireless networks around.
Anything obvious I’m doing wrong? Or is the rewrite of the networkmanager
still not really usable? Or could anyone successfully using the new thing
with one of the above Intel cards be willing to share the configfile(s) with me?
On 11/03/2010 09:36 AM, rumpel17 wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have (at least) 3 different laptops:
> A Toshiba R500 with Intel 3945, a Dell D620 with Intel 3945 and
> a Dell X300 with Intel 2200.
> The following is true and “double-verified” for all three of them!
>
> I install Opensuse-11.1 (with KDE-4) and the (K)Networkmanager is
> working
> “out of the box”: I click it, setup my wireless LAN (with old
> WEP-“security”)
> and get one or two IP-addresses (DHCP) depending whether the eth0-cable
> is
> attached or not. Network access is without problems.
>
> I install Opensuse-11.2 or 11.3 and the only way to get wireless
> working
> is to switch to the old ifup method and disable the networkmanager,
> though I can “scan” and see all the wireless networks around.
>
> Anything obvious I’m doing wrong? Or is the rewrite of the
> networkmanager
> still not really usable? Or could anyone successfully using the new
> thing
> with one of the above Intel cards be willing to share the configfile(s)
> with me?
Are you trying to connect to wireless with the wired connection intact? That may
have been possible with 11.1, but not with 11.2 or 11.3. If the wired connection
is set to be active on boot, or if the cable is connected, it will have priority.
Once you resolve that problem, just open the applet for your desktop, click on
“Manage Connections” and create the wireless connection you want.
Thank you very much lwfinger!
In the end your hint was the way to my solution:
When I delete from within yast the wired network (eth0) AND
do not connect the cable, only then I was able to use the (K)Networkmanager
(from the icon in the system tray) to first enable the wireless and
then configure, activate and use it.
At least this did work on my Toshiba R500 with Intel 4965 on a freshly installed
OpenSuse-11.3 some minutes ago.
Two more remarks:
I find this much less convenient than it has been before OpenSuse-11.2.
Somehow I missed the hint that wireless will ONLY work with NO wired cable
attached. If I remember correctly this isn’t even mentioned in your sticky
threads. Should this be true, couldn’t you include this hint there?
On 11/08/2010 07:06 AM, rumpel17 wrote:
>
> Thank you very much lwfinger!
> In the end your hint was the way to my solution:
>
> When I delete from within yast the wired network (eth0) AND
> do not connect the cable, only then I was able to use the
> (K)Networkmanager
> (from the icon in the system tray) to first enable the wireless and
> then configure, activate and use it.
>
> At least this did work on my Toshiba R500 with Intel 4965 on a freshly
> installed
> OpenSuse-11.3 some minutes ago.
>
> Two more remarks:
> - I find this much less convenient than it has been before
> OpenSuse-11.2.
> - Somehow I missed the hint that wireless will ONLY work with NO wired
> cable
> attached. If I remember correctly this isn’t even mentioned in your
> sticky
> threads. Should this be true, couldn’t you include this hint there?
This change in behavior started with NetworkManager 0.7, which was released
after the stickies were written. I should rewrite them, but there is always
something else to do.