I have a Packard Bell Easynote TM86 which has an Atheros PCI wifi card. I have been using SuSe since the year dot. This week I decided to take the jump and did a new install of 12.3 after using 11.1 since its release. My WIFI card has always worked out of the box with no problems yet 12.3 installs the card with the right driver but all of a sudden is stuck on hard off mode. My laptop is the type which starts wifi with fn f2 keys when needed. SuSe has never been a problem before. I have tried Ndiswrapper and Madwifi and both report the same error. Any ideas please guys as I am now starting to think this may be a kernel bug.
As you should have detected, we have a Wireless forum here. My guess is that Wifi gurus are more likely to be found there.
Do you want me to move this thread?
My Bad yes please.
This thread is CLOSED for the moment and will be moved to the Wireless forum.
Moved from Laptop and open again.
Possibly not relevant to your problem, but I know for openSUSE-12.3, with my Toshiba Ultrabook when booting from a liveDVD (openSUSE-12.3) or from a liveUSB (also with openSUSE-12.3) in order to get my wireless to function properly, I immediately open a terminal and with root permissions type:
systemctl start network.service
This is to work around an openSUSE-12.3 bug.
My understanding also, is after one has updated openSUSE-12.3 , the above is no longer necessary.