No automatic connection with my little Edimax

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I have just upgraded from 11.2 to 11.3 my Dell Inspiron 5100 with LAN adapter Edimax Ew-7711utn.

It was working fine under 11.2, without using Network Manager. The old RT2870 driver was loaded and wpa_supplicant started at boot time. But it does not connect any more automatically with 11.3. The nl80211 almost universal driver seems to be missing, wpa_supplicant is not launched during the boot process, and no connection to the AP is therefore made. I have tried quickly NetworkManager but it is of no help in this case. There is still a long way to go to make it a reliable clever tool. So, back to the ifup method, I can only connect manually with this small script :

#!/bin/sh

echo "Starting mywifi "
/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext -B
sleep 2
/sbin/dhclient wlan0
echo “”
route add -net default gw 192.168.0.1
sleep 3
iwconfig

exit 0

It works, but I am not happy at all to have to run this bad script, and would like to understand the origin of this regression, and why is nl80211 not found.

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Never had any answer to this thread. So I just wanted to say that the last update, which includes the kernel update to 2.6.34.4-0.1, has solved the problem. The connection to the wifi network is automatic again and my silly script can be put into the bin. As often with Linux, you just need to be patient. Thank you for those at Opensuse, who have done the good work.