Laptop Wireless Working yesterday but not anymore HP G70-460US

So I just installed OpenSUSE since I it as a much nice Linux Distro than Ubuntu for play and development…I was excited for the fact it gave me little trouble detecting my wifi in my laptop and connecting then the headache I had with ubuntu 11.04…but when I just booted up my laptop 10 min ago the wireless is working its just that it keeps complaining about re-entering the network password. I tried clearing the connection settings and rebooting it still complains…

anyhelp?

Hi!
Have you touched something on the configuration of the wireless connection?
You can check that it are marked so:

http://i.imgur.com/jRbvo.png

Do you have KDE or Gnome?
Are you new with OpenSuSE?

Post the result of the following, that will tell us enough to know what device we are dealing with:

/sbin/lspci -nnk

Also tell us if you use kde or gnome
And what wireless security you use
And have you a wired connection also
And have you run updates

On 06/28/2011 04:06 AM, techlawsam wrote:
>
> it keeps complaining about
> re-entering the network password. I tried clearing the connection
> settings and rebooting it still complains…

i know this sounds pretty basic, but:

check your caps lock and make sure you enter the correct password


DD
-Caveat-Hardware-Software-

Im using Gnome , and latest openSUSE 11.4, My connection security is WPA/WPA2 personal, checked the CAPS lock since i entered password with the “show password” option, havent touched anything in the network config.

the output of lspci is:

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller [8086:2919] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem [8086:2932] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360b]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002a] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1381]
Kernel driver in use: ath9k

The connection obviously works
Is it actually loosing connection when it’s asking for the password?

when i boot up the computer it attempts to connect to my wifi network then like a minute later it will ask for my password I even have very good signal. This is almost like the same behavior ubuntu 11.04 was giving me except I had to re-setup my wifi card…

Create a new user account and login with it (you need auto login disabled to do this)
Does it have the same problem?

I get this “Warning” Message when i make a new login account with no auto login, wireless is not “activated” so i go to “computer” and under “status” its says network: none , I click it and then i get this message :

Network is currently controlled by NetworkManager and its settings
cannot be edited by YaST.

To edit the settings, use NetworkManager connection editor, or
switch the network setup method to Traditional method with ifup.d

It’s self explanatory

Do you understand it?

go to terminal type : sudo ifupd ?

Is network manager a program in the control panel?

i changed the network manager to ifup it installed somepackaged…i restart the network manager it probes hardware rewrites teh settings, etc. but for some reason its says my atheros 928x in my laptop is “disconnected” what do i do?

thanks again

For wireless is generally best to use Network Manager
Open Yast > Network Devices > Network Settings
If you are already configured to use Network Manager it will tell you, Like this; http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/All_Network/network_manager_yast.png

You can toggle to use Network Manager or ifup after clicking OK at the above image
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/All_Network/network_manager_yast2.png

Yes, Network Manager resides in your panel system tray

A new user account with the system set to use Network Manager is the way to test the problem

in the other user account i made network manager is disabled even after i go through the settings you should i even tried manually adding the wireless connection

Very very odd

Try adding this repo
Index of /repositories/driver:/wireless/11.4-update
And updating

SWEET thanks man that repo I think did the job , I added that URL ,refreshed and installed the updates my system rebooted it asked me for the wifi password I retyped it and it finally established connection. Hopefully this is permanent…thanks again!

Good news
Lets hope so