I consider this a red alert problem. Since the Iced tea web update on 15 Aug, I am unable to logon to my wifi network in OSS 11.4. Right now, in OSS 12.1, I have to plug in /etc/init.d/network restart in a root terminal to get on the network every time I start the system because it was also stalling at the login page.
I guess that /etc/init.d/network restart is not the command to use in 11.4 because the result is “network management disabled.” Here is the output:
linux-ppnb:~ # /etc/init.d/network restart
Shutting down the NetworkManager done
Shutting down network interfaces:
eth0 device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B
No configuration found for eth0
Nevertheless the interface will be shut down. done
wlan0 device: RaLink RT2860
No configuration found for wlan0
Nevertheless the interface will be shut down. done
Shutting down service network . . . . . . . . . done
Starting the NetworkManager done
Connecting............... 1s
waiting
It’s too much of a coincidence that this network problem is happening after that “iced tea web” update. The bug must be in there.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE tell me what to do to get this resolved. At the very least, please tell me how to restart the network in 11.4. Thanks in advance.
On 08/16/2012 08:06 AM, HealingMindNOS wrote:
> It’s too much of a coincidence that this network problem is happening
> after that “iced tea web” update. The bug must be in there.
maybe, but i don’t know what java has to do with Network Manager…
i’m not a networking guru, but i think java has nothing at all to do
with either Network Manager nor the wi-fi driver…
so, i wonder, what else got changed on 15 Aug, like maybe a kernel?? so,
please show us the terminal output and input from
zypper lr -d
uname -a
cat /etc/SuSE-release
tail -n25 /var/log/zypp/history
copy/paste the in/output back to this thread using the instructions
here: http://goo.gl/i3wnr
and also please tell us how the 15 Aug update was performed, was it one
of these ways:
At the moment, I’m stuck at a windoze pc that won’t let me open my text files which have all the code you have requested. Both 11.4 and 12.1 are incapacitated in logging onto my wifi network. If this is a kernel problem, I would appreciate further instruction to discover the ailment. I will deliver the requested code ASAP.
I only use Yast Online for updates. This is nightmarish. Both OSS 11.4 and 12.1 are now unable to logon to my wifi network. I am unable to restart the network in 12.1. I am having to use Win7 as I write this. Here is the code you requested for 12.1:
ok…this is a head scratcher!
[WARNING: read my sig caveat and all the way to the bottom of this post
prior to doing and ‘fixing’]
your repo lists look ok on both machines…but, i guess you don’t need
multimedia (because packman is not enabled on either…which is ok, and i
don’t has any bearing on this problem)
so, i don’t have an icedtea-web installed on my machine (mostly because
i use the SUN/Oracle Java, rather than the open source iced-tea)…
so, i gonna guess to use YaST Software Management to search for and
then uninstall/delete “icedtea-web” and its “icedtea-web-javadoc”
packages…i think you ought to be able to do that while leaving all
of the java-1_6_0-openjdk packages…
and, then test to see if you can once again access your network problems
(but really, i can’t see how/why a java pack could/would
interfere…but it should be easy to remove the iced-tea and confirm
that that is not the problem, and then reinstall it!!)
hmmmmm…is that windows machine able to connect to the wi-fi, or is it
hard wired (maybe the wi-fi part of the router just stopped working
about the same time the iced-tea thing was installed???)
WAIT: did both machines continue to hook up via wi-fi ok after the
bind was updated on both (10 Aug on the 12.1 and 9 Aug on the 11.4)??
OH, and did both continue to work after a reboot (or networking
restart) done after the bind updates??
do you run a local DNS, or DCHP or what?
i do hope a real networking guru drops in (i’m not one of those)…
In your first post above you show that there isn’t even a configuration found for wlan0. II suppose you saw that. What did you do with that information?
I’m not sure what to tell you, Henk. My network connections were fine until that icedtea web update in both 11.4 and 12.1, so it can’t be a coincidence. I would like to hear from everyone else who downloaded that same update, but I’m guessing that their network connections got hit the same way mine did or else I should be getting more replies.
As far as wlan0, I don’t know how to configure such a thing. I only go with what Yast says that OSS needs to update. The following is ifconfig for 12.1 as I am trying to get on the wifi network (I can hook into the access point, but cannot get the login page):
@dd, I’m using win7 as I write this on the same wifi connection (DCHP) and it works fine.
Unfortunately, I don’t know how to uninstall an update. I know how to look up update history in 12.1. I’m not sure where the update history is in 11.4. I definitely appreciate your assistance in uninstalling that update to find out if that’s the trouble maker. I’m hoping that others who most likely are experiencing the same trouble can find this.
Google Wifi Network has a login page with user name and password. I’m about to go back into OSS 12.1 and find out if I can uninstall icedtea web update, but I’m not sure if this is possible w/o a network connection. Any caveats I should know when using Yast software management w/o a connection? Thanks in advance.
This is the main problem you posted. And it confirms to your title. I guess most people here (me included) read this as if you was not able to connect to your Wifi access point (your router).
You never told that you accessed something of Google. You better explain exactly what you are normaly doing, what happens then when everything is OK and what happens now that it is not OK. We can realy not guess what you are doing, seeing there when you think that all others here are doing the same thing all the time and thus take for granted that we do understand exactly what happens to you when you only proivide three lines of technical information.
I’m not sure if what I’m doing is different from everyone else when it comes to wifi. I take for granted exactly what happens because I’m not familiar with other systems.
I still need help. I uninstalled Icedtea web, but I still have the same problem. The only other common threads between 11.4 and 12.1 are Google Wifi and myself. Could you please tell me how to uncover the problem? Thanks in advance.
Am 17.08.2012 20:26, schrieb Martin Helm:
> Just out of curiousity, is that what you are using?
> http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/tisp/
>
Duh, sorry I sent by accident the joke link, not the one I wanted to add
I must do a confession. I do not understand much from your poroblem, but also not from you.
You are using a service that is apparently only available in one tiny spot of the world. And you can not access it. You do not tell so, but you apperently think that we, your fellow openSUSE users that are spread all over the world will understand immediatly that from what you are not saying.
And about your computer info.
When all the output you gave belongs to the same situation, you have IP addresses and the wlan0 device is up, but you have no routing table at all (not even for your LAN only) and you have no configuration file. That is beyond my imagination.