wireless not working

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#1

I just installed 11.2 on my Presario CQ50-110us. The wireless card isn’t working but it seems to register the card. Here is my iwconfig…

lo         no wireless extensions.

et0        no wireless extensions.

wmaster0   no wireless extensions.

wlan0      IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
           Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz   Access Point: Not-Associated
           TX-Power=off
           Retry  long limit:7   RTS  thr:off   Fragment   thr:off
           Encryption:off
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0

Thanks in advance for any help you all can provide :slight_smile:

#2

Are you using network manager or ifup to control networking?
I have found that changing the network settings (via yast2>network to use traditional ifup (in the general tab) and then OK) helps.
Now go back to network devices>network and setup the wirless network card. It should at least scan the network for wireless networks.
Once this has been set, you can once again enable network manager. Reboot and it should see the wireless networks.
If you still have problems, look at the first 2 threads in: http://forums.opensuse.org/network-internet/wireless/

#3

I changed it to ifup with no avail. I was working though some of the other faqs and got it to see wireless networks but it wouldnt connect. Once I restarted it was back to not working.

The funny thing is through the liveCD (before I installed) the wifi worked flawlessly.