Hi,
I am super new to linux. I have tried a lot of distros but went with OpenSUSE11.3.
I have both gnome and kde live cd.
Now to the problem, When I put in the live cd and boot - the computer finds the wireless card and lets me connect to the internet. This works on both versions. But after clicking on the install icon the wireless no longer starts and then I cant get it to work. Maybe its something I should be doing. After all I am new to this. lol Any help would be great because I want to learn and use this OS.
On 11/15/2010 07:36 AM, supermarc wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am super new to linux. I have tried a lot of distros but went with
> OpenSUSE11.3.
> I have both gnome and kde live cd.
> Now to the problem, When I put in the live cd and boot - the computer
> finds the wireless card and lets me connect to the internet. This works
> on both versions. But after clicking on the install icon the wireless no
> longer starts and then I cant get it to work. Maybe its something I
> should be doing. After all I am new to this. lol Any help would be great
> because I want to learn and use this OS.
There are two known bugs in the 11.3 KDE install that are not present on the
Live CD. I don’t know about the Gnome version.
Do you have access to a wired connection after the install? If so, then please
do an update using YaST or with the command ‘sudo zypper up’. After that and the
following reboot, then launch the network connection manager from the network
applet in the lower right hand corner of the screen and establish your
connection. If you use WEP, then you must use the hexadecimal key, not a passphrase.
If you are still unable to get a wireless connection, please post the output of
the following commands:
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
cat /etc/resolv.conf
/sbin/route -n
Thanks for the suggestion. I have used the sudo command as you suggested and it finished and after a reboot I still get no wireless connection. So I have ran the commands you said and below is a post of the results…
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 Ralink STA ESSID:""
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz
Link Quality=10/100 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:-143 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
cat /etc/resolve.conf
/etc/resolv.conf file autogenerated by netconfig!
Before you change this file manually, consider to define the
static DNS configuration using the following variables in the
/etc/sysconfig/network/config file:
NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEARCHLIST
NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SERVERS
NETCONFIG_DNS_FORWARDER
or disable DNS configuration updates via netconfig by setting:
NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=’’
See also the netconfig(8) manual page and other documentation.
Note: Manual change of this file disables netconfig too, but
may get lost when this file contains comments or empty lines
only, the netconfig settings are same with settings in this
file and in case of a “netconfig update -f” call.
Please remove (at least) this line when you modify the file!
search gateway.2wire.net
nameserver 192.168.1.254
/sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
I am not sure what all this is but I hope it helps. lol
Maybe I will figure it all out soon.
Thanks for your help
I did notice that while in yast setting up the connection - well trying to- It will find the network ssid but even after going through all the steps still no wireless
On 11/15/2010 04:36 PM, supermarc wrote:
>
> I did notice that while in yast setting up the connection - well trying
> to- It will find the network ssid but even after going through all the
> steps still no wireless
Your route command shows that you have the wire plugged in. Recent versions give
priority to wired over wireless. The latter will never work when the wire is
connected.