Hi,
In the System Settings on the Wireless tab is this beautiful button that says ‘Use as Hotspot’.
The last couple of months I was using Ubuntu 12.04 (just seeing what the fuzz is about 
) and in Ubuntu it worked flawless. Click the button and your AP is up. Now in OpenSUSE 12.1 64b on the same machine when I click the button I have to enter my Root pw 2 times! and then it keeps asking for the WEP key. If you enter it, it will just keep asking it again… And again… And again…
Is there anyway to get this working correctly?
Thanks.
On 08/23/2012 03:36 AM, Ricochet wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In the System Settings on the Wireless tab is this beautiful button
> that says ‘Use as Hotspot’.
>
> The last couple of months I was using Ubuntu 12.04 (just seeing what
> the fuzz is about ) and in Ubuntu it worked flawless. Click the
> button and your AP is up. Now in OpenSUSE 12.1 64b on the same machine
> when I click the button I have to enter my Root pw 2 times! and then it
> keeps asking for the WEP key. If you enter it, it will just keep asking
> it again… And again… And again…
>
> Is there anyway to get this working correctly?
I’m confused. Where is this magical ‘Use as Hotspot’ button? As you mention
Ubuntu, it must be in Gnome - I certainly have not found it in KDE.
As it keeps asking for the key over and over, my guess is that the code has not
really set up AP mode, or your wireless device does not support AP mode. As you
have not told us what that device is, who knows. I suppose that as it works in
Ubuntu, their kernel version (also unknown) supports AP mode; however, kernel
3.1 might not.
The short answer to getting it to work correctly is to describe exactly what
hardware and software you are using, and file a bug report.