I have this strange wifi problem.
I have a laptop Compaq cq60 and once I installed opensuse 11.1 64 with a Atheros AR5001 wifi card (pci).
It worked and connected to several wap at home and abroad with no problem.
I upgrade the laptop with a clean install to OpenSuSE 11.4 (also x86_64).
Now when I try to bring the interface up a strange message appears.
Moreover!
I had the same problem with a Netgear usb wifi dongle!
A Realtek completely different chipset.
Before the problems a small explanation of the setup.
The module for the Atheros is loaded with no problems.
I already tested rmmod ath5k and rmmod ath and then modprobe ath5k … no problems whatsoever.
The same happens for the NetGear usb wifi dongle! It is immediately recognized as soon as the module is inserted and the module loaded.
I also checked this with lsudev and lshal … I could not see any problems there …
I do not use NetworkManager as my experience tells me it is better to first configure on cli and then move to the graphical interface when things are working conveniently.
So both internal and usb wifi cards are detected and the respective modules loaded with no problems.
They are both configured in yast to be activated manually and they both have the wep key and essid.
I connect to a Asuswl500g WAP with wep encryption just to start.
When I try to bring up any of those wifi interfaces I get this error :
ifup wlan0
wlan0 device: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
wlan0 starting wpa_supplicant
Could not set interface wlan0 flags: Unknown error 132
Could not set interface ‘wlan0’ UP
Failed to initialize driver interface
RTNETLINK answers: Unknown error 132
Starting DHCP4 client on wlan0. .
wlan0 DHCP4 client NOT running
RTNETLINK answers: Unknown error 132
Cannot enable interface wlan0.
interface wlan0 is not up
Anyone with the same problem ??
Any idea of what is happening?
On 06/26/2011 07:06 AM, keyb user wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I have this strange wifi problem.
> I have a laptop Compaq cq60 and once I installed opensuse 11.1 64 with
> a Atheros AR5001 wifi card (pci).
> It worked and connected to several wap at home and abroad with no
> problem.
>
> I upgrade the laptop with a clean install to OpenSuSE 11.4 (also
> x86_64).
>
> Now when I try to bring the interface up a strange message appears.
> Moreover!
> I had the same problem with a Netgear usb wifi dongle!
>
> A Realtek completely different chipset.
>
> Before the problems a small explanation of the setup.
>
> The module for the Atheros is loaded with no problems.
> I already tested rmmod ath5k and rmmod ath and then modprobe ath5k …
> no problems whatsoever.
> The same happens for the NetGear usb wifi dongle! It is immediately
> recognized as soon as the module is inserted and the module loaded.
> I also checked this with lsudev and lshal … I could not see any
> problems there …
>
> I do not use NetworkManager as my experience tells me it is better to
> first configure on cli and then move to the graphical interface when
> things are working conveniently.
>
> So both internal and usb wifi cards are detected and the respective
> modules loaded with no problems.
>
> They are both configured in yast to be activated manually and they both
> have the wep key and essid.
>
> I connect to a Asuswl500g WAP with wep encryption just to start.
>
> When I try to bring up any of those wifi interfaces I get this error :
>
> ifup wlan0
> wlan0 device: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless
> Network Adapter (rev 01)
> wlan0 starting wpa_supplicant
> Could not set interface wlan0 flags: Unknown error 132
> Could not set interface ‘wlan0’ UP
> Failed to initialize driver interface
> RTNETLINK answers: Unknown error 132
> Starting DHCP4 client on wlan0. .
> wlan0 DHCP4 client NOT running
> RTNETLINK answers: Unknown error 132
> Cannot enable interface wlan0.
> interface wlan0 is not up
>
>
> Anyone with the same problem ??
> Any idea of what is happening?
Error 132 is “operation not possible due to RFkill”. You must have the driver
for a PCI device loaded with its RFkill switch in the off position. Use
‘/usr/sbin/rfkill list’ to show what is happening.
On 06/26/2011 01:36 PM, keyb user wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My rfkill list is the following one before making any kind on ifup
> wlan0 …
>
> rfkill list
> 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
> Soft blocked: yes
> Hard blocked: no
> 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
> Soft blocked: yes
> Hard blocked: no
>
>
> After making ifup wlan0 the result is the same.
> Any problems there ?
Blocked is blocked!!! Of course there is a problem.
As rfkill may be able to clear a soft block, try
sudo /usr/sbin/rfkill unblock all
/usr/sbin/rfkill list
If the list part shows no blocks, then ifup should work.
