wifi WAS working, not now, what did I do? here's a list...

English Network/Internet
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ok, fresh install last night 64bit DVD.

EVERYTHING worked out of the box. wifi performance was a little poor and I posted about that, no definitive info yet…

so, here is what I did last night:

fresh install
add the repos from the wiki
install nvidia driver using one click method
modified boot option in /boot/grub/menu.lst to read “pci=noacpi”

that last thing was to resolve a hanging issue on boot which was fixed temporarily by adding “acpi=off” to the boot options, and modding this file was a suggestion by another user on this board.

ok, so did all that last night. everything was going GREAT. woke up this morning and booted and bamn. no wifi. what the heck? I quickly changed that menu.lst file back thinking that was obviously the only thing which could have happened but I get the same result.

additionally, I noticed it hangs on shutdown now. the progress goes all the way across, then it becomes gray and won’t do anything without me hitting the power button a couple times. takes forever to shut down.

any ideas on what on earth I could have done?

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forgot to add that after adding the repos, I used the “software update” utility and just selected everything and updated it.

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Maybe openSUSE enables the wifi card via an ACPI call after you start it. I would try to disable pci=noacpi and reboot.

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I checked the file /boot/grub/menu.lst and it did not have the acpi thing in it. I had taken that out properly.

really sort of puzzled here. is there a way to just delete the device and re-enable it? I’m not that familiar with linux enough yet to know where to go.

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What does YaST say about your network card? Does it recognize it at all? Have a look at YaST/Network Devices/Network Settings.
If your card is listed there as active or working, check whether it is controlled by NetworkManager(it should be).