listing all Wii networks around. But I don’t understand what’s the point posting it here. I do know which network to connect to and how it is called.
What information do you need then? Mode? Channels? Rates? Signal strenth? Or the BSSID?
The network I want to connect is listed twice - same name, different BSSID (only last digit is different), on Chan 52 (270 Mbit/s) one 11 (130 Mbit/s), both WPA2,
Might the system try to connect to the wrong channel?
Thank you for your paitience!
Oh and I am confused: Suddenly the background of the desktop changed. Before it was yellowish, now its blue. I dind’t change anything in the settings.
It is a repeater I connect to, this might be the reason for the two channels.
I tired to manually change die BSSID in the GUI B7 → B6 for the other channel, but that didn’t help, too.
When I try to select one BSSID it only shows one to choose from - the one ending with B7 (the other B6).
Oh and I just discovered that Ubuntu (running on the tablet I use at the moment) lets me choose the BSSID in between those two. OpsenSuse only displays one. No choice.
I just tried to connect the original network - and booom - it connected immediately. At the moment it’s downloading updates.
Unfortunately the signal strengh is bad (that’s why I bought the repeater in the first place).
After all the updates are done I shall try again to connect the repeater.
The signal strengh is indeed different for the different channels (100% and 95%) of the repeater.
How can I tell the right channel and how can I connect to it?
Unfortunately after the updates the connection was lost again and the same error as before appeared for the original network. Now the problem seems to be again the (automatically activated) passwordmanager.
Seems as if I had two problems at once - the PW manager and the two channels of the repeater. Urgh.
You may tackle the passwormanager problem near your router, than do the rest.
In my setup I have my router (fritz.box) and a repeater, configured as mesh so same setting apply to both devices. My 2 wifi networkss - 2,4GHz and 5 GHz - I configured the same ssid “Roundabout”, bssid are unique. This way my devices connect nmcli --ask dev wifi connect Roundabout
best fit (2,4 or 5 GHz9 automatically.
The 100% signal may be over the edge, you may dump it down wet t-shirt, setting or enlarge distance.
In my setup I have my router (fritz.box) and a repeater, configured as mesh so same setting apply to both devices. My 2 wifi networkss - 2,4GHz and 5 GHz - I configured the same ssid “Roundabout”, bssid are unique. This way my devices connect nmcli --ask dev wifi connect Roundabout
best fit (2,4 or 5 GHz9 automatically.
Same here, except I added “_EXT” to the repeater SSID. Unfortunately it still refuses to connect the repeater.
I also need to connect the wifi Network (original router) manually every single time at startup, sometimes it works, sometimes not (did not find out why). If it does not work, the system disables the wifi adapter (!) - so it takes time to reinitialize and to search for wifi networks again.
Refusing to give up too early I also tried to install Tumbleweed but this jammend during the installation process with no error - just stopped working. I didn’t write down at which point that was as I instructed myself before: If it works out of the box: give it a try, if not: leave it.
So, I finally decided to install Zorin OS 18 Pro. That’s what my wife has on her brand new laptop and it worked out of the box.
To try it, I installed it on an external drive and boom everything works on my 6 year old but trusted PC. No tweaks, no setups required, no hickups so far - everytihng’s fine. The look is also good at least in some ways similar to KDE Plasma. Dolphin works (I don’t like Nautilus), all the software I need are in the softwaremanager out of the box.
It’s as simple as it can get.
I would still love to try out openSuse again in the future but when I have some more knowledge.
Thank you very much for all your replies and for the time.
Sorry, that I gave up.