Hello,
I have upgraded my 11.4 to 12.1 but the wireless does not work well. It connects but no browsing. It works fine with Eth0!
I connect thru the plasmoid network manager
Make sure ipv6 is turned off.
I could only use the browser to get to some openSUSE-related sites (and FedoraProject.org) but things like Google.com and more got a “could not find server” error.
I had a similar issue with Fedora and ipv6 was the culprite (you can also verify by trying in the terminal
ping google.com
and it will come back with Google’s IP address which if you put into Firefox’s address bar will bring up the page, while
ping6 google.com
does not come back with anything because the “6” makes it ping ipv6 addresses while “ping” alone uses only ipv4.
I went to Yast, clicked Network, clicked “OK” at the message about network being managed by NetworkManager and then un-checked the “use ipv6” checkbox. Saving and closing Yast, then Firefox could navigate just perfectly. If not, then try closing and re-opening Firefox but I don’t think that is necessary.
HI, Thank you for the quick reply.
I have deactivated IPv6 indeed and not progress so far.
Even after a reboot
Do you get anywhere if you try to “ping” google.com (or any other site), and “ping6”?
That may at least tell you if you have a pulse and it is just the browsers, or if it could be you are connected to a dead-end.
Also, if you know the IP address of the router you are connected to, usually they have a web interface and see if you can access that.
this is the output:
philippe@linux-lze3:~> ping google.com
PING google.com (209.85.148.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from fra07s07-in-f99.1e100.net (209.85.148.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=40 time=308 ms
64 bytes from fra07s07-in-f99.1e100.net (209.85.148.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=40 time=317 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 308.639/312.873/317.107/4.234 ms
ping6 google.com
unknown host
now using wireless:
philippe@linux-lze3:~> ping google.com
PING google.com (209.85.148.105) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from fra07s07-in-f105.1e100.net (209.85.148.105): icmp_seq=1 ttl=40 time=310 ms
64 bytes from fra07s07-in-f105.1e100.net (209.85.148.105): icmp_seq=2 ttl=40 time=309 ms
64 bytes from fra07s07-in-f105.1e100.net (209.85.148.105): icmp_seq=3 ttl=40 time=299 ms
64 bytes from fra07s07-in-f105.1e100.net (209.85.148.105): icmp_seq=4 ttl=40 time=967 ms
64 bytes from fra07s07-in-f105.1e100.net (209.85.148.105): icmp_seq=5 ttl=40 time=2307 ms
64 bytes from fra07s07-in-f105.1e100.net (209.85.148.105): icmp_seq=6 ttl=40 time=1318 ms
64 bytes from fra07s07-in-f105.1e100.net (209.85.148.105): icmp_seq=7 ttl=40 time=338 ms
64 bytes from fra07s07-in-f105.1e100.net (209.85.148.105): icmp_seq=8 ttl=40 time=327 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 received, 0% packet loss, time 7003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 299.850/772.547/2307.885/682.842 ms, pipe 3
but more than 1 min to open this page! same with Opera, Konqueror, and slow email download with Thunderbird
So it is your wireless that isn’t working, but wired it works? Does wireless pull up ANY web pages (like openSUSE.org)?
You checked that the wireless connection also doesn’t have ipv6 enabled? It shouldn’t, I would suppose, but worth a look. Under “Manage Connections” you select the wireless connection and there is an ipv6 tab.
If you can navigate over the wi-fi to the router you are connecting to, at least you’ll know that they are shaking hands. It could be the router isn’t passing wireless traffic through.
On 11/18/2011 09:06 AM, dragonbite wrote:
> If you can navigate over the wi-fi to the router you are connecting to,
> at least you’ll know that they are shaking hands. It could be the router
> isn’t passing wireless traffic through.
If that were true, then he would not be able to ping google.com.
(not that any of them are great) I am running out of ideas of what it can be here.
I sent the last message thru wireless but it took more than one min to open the page on both of my networks.
Ipv6 is disabled too on wireless. What file contains all settings so I can delete it and reconnect on a fresh config?
even the access to http://192.168.1.1/ (the router) is a pain
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On 11/18/2011 10:36 AM, dragonbite wrote:
>
> lwfinger;2405673 Wrote:
>> On 11/18/2011 09:06 AM, dragonbite wrote:
>>> If you can navigate over the wi-fi to the router you are connecting
>> to,
>>> at least you’ll know that they are shaking hands. It could be the
>> router
>>> isn’t passing wireless traffic through.
>>
>> If that were true, then he would not be able to ping google.com.
>
> (not that any of them are great) I am running out of ideas of what it
> can be here.
@phiga, Connect your browser to speedtest.net. What up and down speeds do you
get with both wired and wireless?
Maybe better: I was suspicious about the connection speed to the router: showing 135 Mb/sec
The router wifi mode was set to “auto” and I forced it to " Wireless-G/N Only " and got a connection speed at 54 Mb/sec
It seems to work fine now.
Edit: on wireless, the speed was such that speedtest.net was not able to load before time out
now is reasonable for 3G:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1599407994.png](http://www.speedtest.net)
I had same problem. I installed 12.1 on my laptop with intel 5100 wireless, wireless connected but no browsing. I also disable IPv6 but nothing change until now. Any help please.