Wireless not connecting on OpenSUSE 11.3

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Hi,

I am facing issues in connecting to wifi after upgrading to 11.3 from 11.2. My laptop has Intel 5100 wireless. I had searched through the forum and did find some workarounds(like updating options.conf, removing /etc/NetworkManager directory, using ifup instead of network manager) but all those are not working for me. It will disconnect within a few mins after restaring network service.
Has anyone heard about any fix from Intel guys for this and if yes then where can I get that? I had faced hell lot of difficulties while upgrading coz of many unresolved dependencies and don’t want to go back to 11.2

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Read this Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Driver

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If you went through dependency hell while doing an upgrade, I think you were doing things incorrectly. Your system is probably all jacked up. Why don’t you try it on a live cd and see if you get different results. If it works there, I would do a clean install of 11.3.

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BTW:

You can safely ignore the thread linked in #2, it won’t be of any real help or even point you into the wrong direction.

if you have a look at the date of that thread, you might get an idea why.

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As I understand it:
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It would be an good idea to determine which device for wireless networking (WLAN) your laptop is really using.
Example:
Even if you are really using one of the Intel® WiFi Link 5100 Series - there are just 4 members of that series
See:
Product Brief : Intel® WiFi Link 5100 Series
Model Code: - Version:

512AN_MMW - 512AN_MMW (supports 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N1 in a PCIe Mini Card form factor)
512AG_MMW - 512AG_MMW (supports 802.11a/b/g in a PCIe Mini Card form factor)
512AN_HMW - 512AN_HMW (supports 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N1 in in a PCIe Half Mini Card form factor)
512AG_HMW - 512AG_HMW (supports 802.11a/b/g in in a PCIe Half Mini Card form factor)

And there may be also some devices that are not really part of that 5100 series but the user would have
Therefor it may be a good idea trying to get the Identify-Code of this PCIe-device/PCI Express-device/Mini-PCI-E-device/… (the PCI-ID, ePCI-ID, s/PCI-ID, PCIe-ID … or what the **** this code is called correctly) in a form like “8086:4237”. You may use

/sbin/lspci

and than

/sbin/lspci -n

to determine this code.
See:
My wireless doesn’t work - a primer on what I should do next
Compare:
SOLVED: Linksys WUSB600N v2

The driver (called iwlagn or iwlwifi ) for “Intel® Wireless WiFi 5100AGN” (if this would be your device at all)
is part of the kernel since kernel Linux 2.6.24
see: Intel® Wireless WiFi Link drivers for Linux*

The NetworkManager and all its ‘helpers’, ‘brothers’ and ‘friends’ are having sometimes problems with each other or with encryption and identification/VPN/special kinds of networks etc. in a wireless network
Compare:
https://features.opensuse.org/309702
NetworkManagement - KDE UserBase

Maybe you should try to tell the possible future expert helpers a bit (more) about the software that you are using tying to connect to a wireless network?

Are you using a special kind of encryption or something like it and what else could you say about the (wireless) network?

Maybe you need to load/install firmware or microcode for your device
Compare:
Comparison of open source wireless drivers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Intel® Wireless WiFi Link drivers for Linux*
But at least for (determining) that you may want to go to 0)

xx)
You might in the time you are waiting for real help just try to search this forums.openSUSE.org a bit with the advanced search or use the tag I added to this thread:
Search Results - openSUSE Forums

Sorry that I could not help you [really/directly]
(maybe I could have some hope that I have tried helping you to help the real helpers ;)…)
Martin
(pistazienfresser)