Hello, I am running OpenSuse 12.1 in with KDE. My wireless was working with knetworkmanager on 11.4 before I made the jump. In 12.1 however, I was unable to get knetworkmanager to work, so I tried to use ifup. I was able to set up my network and connect to my AP as shown by the /usr/sbin/iwconfig command.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Network"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: ##:##:##:##:##:##
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-5 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
However when I tried to run it with the ifup wlan0 command, I get this message
wlan0 name: BCM4312 802.11b/g
command 'iwconfig wlan0 power period 2' returned
Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
wlan0 warning: wpa_supplicant already running on interface
DHCP4 client is already running on wlan0
IP address: ###.###.#.###/##
DHCP6 client is already running on wlan0
My wireless is refusing to work, and I have no idea whats going on, but I’m guessing it has something to do with the power management.
On 12/24/2011 11:16 AM, 8ofspades wrote:
>
> Hello, I am running OpenSuse 12.1 in with KDE. My wireless was working
> with knetworkmanager on 11.4 before I made the jump. In 12.1 however, I
> was unable to get knetworkmanager to work, so I tried to use ifup. I was
> able to set up my network and connect to my AP as shown by the
> /usr/sbin/iwconfig command.
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:“Network”
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: ##:##:##:##:##:##
> Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
> Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-5 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
> --------------------
>
>
> However when I tried to run it with the ifup wlan0 command, I get this
> message
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> wlan0 name: BCM4312 802.11b/g
> command ‘iwconfig wlan0 power period 2’ returned
> Error for wireless request “Set Power Management” (8B2C) :
> SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
> wlan0 warning: wpa_supplicant already running on interface
> DHCP4 client is already running on wlan0
> IP address: ###.###.#.###/##
> DHCP6 client is already running on wlan0
>
> --------------------
>
>
>
> My wireless is refusing to work, and I have no idea whats going on, but
> I’m guessing it has something to do with the power management.
That “error” message is not your problem. It causes no difficulty, and appears
because iwconfig is obsolete, and not all of its commands are implemented.