I installed OpenSUSE last night on my Alienware 17r3 and everything works great except my wireless connection to my home network. I am able to connect via ethernet and I can scan for wifi networks and see my home network. I say connect, enter the password, and it just repeatedly asks me to authenticate by entering my password. It has a killer network e2400 card.
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Just an FYI, I am a new user to OpenSUSE and Linux in general, so don’t beat me up too badly if the answer is obvious lol.
Update: I put in the wrong type of card in this post. My wireless card is a QCA6174 802.11 ac Wireless Network Adapter, so an Atheros. Sorry for the mixup.
I am posting this because this thread needs to be closed out. I just want to say that after numerous attempts at trying to fix my wireless connection issues, I have resolved it. It was a case of user idiocy. I was inadvertently capitalizing a single letter in my network password. Even after reviewing the password a hundred thousand times and thinking it was completely correct, apparently it was not. I apologize for the supreme idiocy that occurred on this thread :embarrassed: lol.
It happens. FYI, I had an Atheros wifi card in my laptop initially, but ended up swapping it out for an intel card after a prolonged period of dealing with intermittent connectivity problems with the ath10k_pci driver. So, if you experience any wifi connectivity problems or weird behavior, that driver is not the most stable. Just something to keep in mind. You may not have any issues.