Wifi gone after upgrade.

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Hi.
I have a Macbook Pro (3.1) with openSuSE installed from scratch.
It was working pretty well, but after a massive upgrade yesterday (mainly kde4 packets) wifi does not work anymore.

The driver (ath9k) is properly loaded. The card scans and finds networks (even mine) but refuses to connect.

A look on /var/log/NetworkManager says:
"<WARN> get_secrets_cb(): Couldn’t get connection secrets: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface “org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Connection.Secrets” member “GetSecrets” error name “(unset)” destination “org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings”)

I think the key is here, but I can’t figure out what went wrong, since I didn’t change anything on my wireless configuration, nor my router setup.

Any help would be sincerly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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Ok, finally solved, but still don’t know what was wrong.
I killed knetworkmanager and used gnome’s nm-applet instead.
I had to configure again my wireless connection on the nm-applet and everything went ok from then on (even using again knetworkmanager).

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hmmm, sounds similar to my, as yet unsolved wireless problem Wireless has stopped working - openSUSE Forums

Sound familiar?

Is there another way I can connect, rather that NM?

Can I use the Gnome applet, even tho I run KDE?

Steve

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You could try to connect via ifup/ifdown, but I find it very annoying.

Of course you can use any gnome app on KDE. When you install any of this applications through YaST, it will install the core gnome libraries it will need to run.

So, after installing the gnome network manager package, you can launch it from within a konsole on KDE, simply type

nm-applet

Can’t remember if you need to run is as root or not (try first as your current user).

Hope it can help you.