hi folks,
I’ve been using OpenSUSE 11/kde3 for sometime and this has been a lingering headache that doesn’t go away. I read the archive about similar problems but no one has offered a true solution.
Gist of the problem is this : wireless connection to my lindsys router is very erratic. After rebooting my notebook, connection is lost and I couldn’t get it reconnect again with knetworkmanager. After I fiddle with YaST -> Network Device -> settings, all of a sudden it’s connecting again. When I take the notebook to Starbucks for a coffee, I couldn’t get it to connect to attwifi, or for that matter any other wifi.
OK, I know you’d ask, so 1) the wireless radio is ON, 2)the card is working because it’s seeing all the wifis in its neighborhood, as found by iwlist scan and are displayed knetworkmanager, 3) I do have encryption at the router (WPA-Personal).
I read on this forum that knetworkmanager can’t deal with encryption, is that correct?
Is there any alternative to knetworkmanager?
Thanks in advance.
HT
Here is my wireless card/driver info,
lspci output :
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Lenovo ThinkPad T51
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 4344
Memory at df3fe000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwl4965
Kernel modules: iwl4965
iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
wmaster0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:18:F8:E7:25:9B
ESSID:“TJ_OK”
Mode:Master
Channel:3
Frequency:2.422 GHz (Channel 3)
Quality=69/100 Signal level=-64 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Encryption key:on
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000039c854f8558
Cell 02 - Address: 00:17:9A:9E:69:5C
ESSID:“Johnson”
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=66/100 Signal level=-67 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Encryption key:on
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=00000003e2b5401e
hwinfo --wlan
02: PCI 300.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.310]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4230
Unique ID: y9sn.WSWwjj0Us20
Parent ID: qTvu._Y5kuEY+GiC
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:03:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: “Intel Lenovo ThinkPad T51”
Vendor: pci 0x8086 “Intel Corporation”
Device: pci 0x4230 “PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection”
SubVendor: pci 0x8086 “Intel Corporation”
SubDevice: pci 0x1110 “Lenovo ThinkPad T51”
Revision: 0x61
Driver: “iwl4965”
Driver Modules: “iwl4965”
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xdf3fe000-0xdf3fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 4344 (no events)
HW Address: 00:1f:3b:5b:35:e7
Link detected: no
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 149 153 157 161 165
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 5.18 5.2 5.22 5.24 5.26 5.28 5.3 5.32 5.745 5.765 5.785 5.805 5.825
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: “pci:v00008086d00004230sv00008086sd00001110bc02sc80i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: iwl4965 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe iwl4965”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #16 (PCI bridge)[/size]