Running OpenSuse 11.1/KDE4, internal Atheros 242 (ath5k) and D-link usb
(rt73usb) wireless cards. Drivers installed, recognized and working
(under ifup).
Network manager won’t let me choose wireless connections, which work
fine under ifup - NM shows connections but when I click one it is
unresponsive and won’t connect. Under Network Settings (switching to
ifup), it’ll scan and let me choose available networks, however when I
choose user controlled through network manager, it stalls on “activate
network settings” with the error “no network running”. If I change back
to ifup, it works. Wired works without issue.
Wifimanager shows a connection and will scan wireless connections, and
the led’s on my wireless card seem to respond to network traffic,
however there’s no connection as Firefox, etc., won’t load anything.
Sysinfo reports “unknown connection”.
Iwconfig also shows that everything is working fine - wlan0 and wlan1
loaded and operational.
I uninstalled and reinstalled networkmanager to no avail, it still
seems to hang when I choose a wireless connection.
Important that I get networkmanager running as I frequently connect to
open wireless networks at my office.
Been a reoccurring issue for me, with both the gnome and kde3 network
managers.
You could try ’ wicd ’ (http://wicd.sourceforge.net/) as an
alternative… I’m too much of a nub to ever have gotten it to work
though.
Or you could try the KDE4 network manager, which did always detect
networks reliably for me, but had other issues… it’s in development and
it was long time ago I tested it though, so might work nicely nowadays.
mmh just installed wicd (there is a one click install up on webpin) and
although it sees all networks… it seems to get stuck on “NETGEAR:
Generating WPA configuration file…”
NETGEAR is an unsecured network, and not one I want to connect to.
Bit silly, as apart from that it looks like something that could work.
Axeia;1918701 Wrote:
> mmh just installed wicd (there is a one click install up on webpin) and
> although it sees all networks… it seems to get stuck on “NETGEAR:
> Generating WPA configuration file…”
> NETGEAR is an unsecured network, and not one I want to connect to.
>
> Bit silly, as apart from that it looks like something that could work.
For s’s and g’s, I’ll take a look at it.
NM was irreparably broken, did a new install and swore to myself I
wouldn’t mess it up again. One of the biggest mistakes we all make is
updating when there’s little to no need to do so. You know the old
saying, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
I did find an entry in dmesg that showed the system had deinitialized
both drivers after loading them - so, if you NM isn’t working, type
dmesg in terminal and look for an obvious error (reason 3?).