WPA security and openSUSE 11.0

1.Is there anyone out there who has actually suceeded with connecting a openSUSE computer to a wireless WPA protected network. If there is what networkcard/USB adapter did he use?

  1. Why isn’t there a program where I can see if the computer finds any WLANs?

  2. What about changing distro? Is WLANs easier to handle in Debian or Fedora?

Help would be appreciate
/Mattias

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My wife’s 11.0 system (HP dv6000 laptop) works on WPA2 (personal) at
home and WPA 2 Enterprise at work… we use Network Manager to make the
connection. She’s on 11.1 now and it still works. Unfortunately the
thing came with a lousy Broadcom card but the ndiswrapper has worked
well with it despite Broadcom’s lack of ability to create non-windows
drivers. You may want to look into the ‘iwevent’ command to see what is
happening on your wireless while you are working with it. I presume
this is a non-server so you are using Network Manager so you are doing
the wireless connection that way instead of statically setting something
in Yast.

Good luck.

Searching for Answers wrote:
> 1.Is there anyone out there who has actually suceeded with connecting a
> openSUSE computer to a wireless WPA protected network. If there is what
> networkcard/USB adapter did he use?
>
> 2. Why isn’t there a program where I can see if the computer finds any
> WLANs?
>
> 3. What about changing distro? Is WLANs easier to handle in Debian or
> Fedora?
>
> Help would be appreciate
> /Mattias
>
>
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  1. Some older cards may not support WPA, are you sure yours does? Have you tried it with WEP at all, or even unsecured just to check that it will actually connect?

  2. There are, have you looked at any of these: KWiFiManager or Kwlan? Easily installed through Yast, simply type wireless into the Software Management tool’s Search box and you’ll find them, plus a few others

(Perhaps you should reserve asking why something isn’t there until you’ve actually looked whether it is :P)

3 Debian, I doubt it, Fedora, possibly but probably not, the easiest distro I’ve come across for setting up wi-fi is a small live one called NimbleX, somehow or other the guy seems to have managed to have almost any wi-fi card working ‘out of the box’

In truth though you’re unlikely to find a distro where things across the board are easier to configure than OpenSuse, getting connected with wireless included

If you look at this thread here:

My wireless doesn’t work - a primer on what I should do next - openSUSE Forums

You’ll see info on things to try as well as the info you need to post if you want help on getting connected

ab@novell.com are you sure you need ndiswrapper for the broadcom card? There’s currently a couple of threads on broadcom cards that show you don’t necessarily need ndiswrapper for them, might be worth you taking a look

Searching for Answers wrote:
> 1.Is there anyone out there who has actually suceeded with connecting a
> openSUSE computer to a wireless WPA protected network. If there is what
> networkcard/USB adapter did he use?

Yes, I have been connecting to WPA-protected networks since openSUSE
10.3. I’m now using 11.1. I am a wireless developer and have 9 cards:
(1) a Broadcon BCM4301 that uses b43legacy, (2) a Broadcom BCM4306 Rev
2 that uses b43legacy, (3) a BCM4306 Rev 3 that uses b43, (4) a
BCM4318 that uses b43, (5) a BCM4312 (PCI ID 0x4312) that uses b43,
(6) a BCM4311 that uses b43, (7) a BCM4312 (PCI ID 0x4315) that does
not work with any current driver, (8) a Dell DW1490 that uses p54usb,
and (9) a Level One WNC-0301USB. All of them work with WPA and WEP
networks. The one with ID of 0x4315 needs ndiswrapper.

> 2. Why isn’t there a program where I can see if the computer finds any
> WLANs?

There are several. The first is called with the command

sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan

The second is GUI-based and is seen in the “New Connection” screen of
KNetworkManager, or the equivalent applet for Gnome. You will see
others listed in the postings of this forum.

> 3. What about changing distro? Is WLANs easier to handle in Debian or
> Fedora?

They all use equivalent kernels and support code. OpenSUSE 11.1 is one
of the best.

Larry

I have a safecom which works with wpa,a broadcom b306 which works,a netgear wg111v1 & v2 all working with wpa. An alternative piece of software for scanning Webpin or there’s wicd - home

Andy

My wlan card is Atheros 242x abg PCI-X. It works out of the box with opensuse 11.1 using NetworkManager and WPA-2 security. The router is a Linksys WRT160N set up to broadcast wireless-g. So far no dropped connections, but then my distance is less than 20 feet.

Yes I have a linksys wireless card using wpa2 with a linksys router. Using opensuse 11.1 with knetworkmanager. It does work. Just need to use the correct settings when setting it up, that is if your router and network card support wpa. When I get home ill get the correct settings. I think its ccmp or something like that.

I have a Netgear WG111v3 dongle and Netgear DG834Gv3 wireless router. They worked out of the box with KNetworkmanager with WPA2 encryption. I also have my HP officejet plugged into the Router with a static IP address. All I had to do with that was set it up as a network printer in HPlip and it works perfectly also. I can scan to my PC, send faxes from my PC and even print things!!

Freddo

Thanks for all the answers. I bought a new computer chair from IKEA today and as soon as I have assemblyed it tomorrow I will get my WLAN working. Because if ab@novell.com 's wife can do it, then so can I

best wishes; these computer chairs from IKEA have been shown in several controlled, randomised studies to improve cerebral function and neural networks; you may well now outpower abnovell’s wife! best wishes

lol! But seriosly I could not sit in my old chair for more than 2 min without having a long break following

I ran into a problem. At point 3 iwconfig said
"(3) Once you know what your hardware is, the next step is to see what the kernel
has to say about it. The command for this is ‘dmesg | less’. Less will allow you
to page through the output. To learn more about less, you can enter the command
‘man less’. To exit the man page, or less itself, type the character q. A space
will move one page down in the text, as will the “pg dn” key. You may move one
line at a time with the keyboard arrow keys. As you go through the dmesg output,
look for any mention of your hardware. On my system, it takes 473 lines of
output before the line “b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found” appears. In
particular, you should look for any lines that indicate that you are missing
firmware. Note that firmware, which runs on the microprocessor in the device, is
distinct from a driver, which runs on the host CPU. If you have missing
firmware, check online to learn how to install firmware for your device.
"
I don’t find anything about my wireless card. What should I do now?

If it matters I got this info from step…
1.linux-rq6t:/home/Mattias # /sbin/lspci
05:0a.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)

And from step 2
linux-rq6t:/home/Mattias # /sbin/lspci -n
05:0a.0 0280: 1814:0201 (rev 01)

On 2009-01-02, plasmonics <plasmonics@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> My wlan card is Atheros 242x abg PCI-X. It works out of the box with
> opensuse 11.1 using NetworkManager and WPA-2 security. The router is a
> Linksys WRT160N set up to broadcast wireless-g. So far no dropped
> connections, but then my distance is less than 20 feet.
>

I have similar if not the same condition but I cannot connect
to secure wlan. ( Atheros 242x, openSuSE 11.1 )
Where did you find WPA-2 in NetworkManager ?
I have installed :

NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0.r4323-1.13
NetworkManager-0.7.0.r4323-1.13
NetworkManager-kde-0.7r848570-23.1

but in the options to create a new wifi connection I see :

WPA personal
WPA enterprise
WPE
IEEE 802.1X.

Is the enterprise WPA-2 ??
What do you mean “out-of-the-box” ?

On 2009-01-02, deltaflyer44 <deltaflyer44@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> I have a safecom which works with wpa,a broadcom b306 which works,a
> netgear wg111v1 & v2 all working with wpa. An alternative piece of
> software for scanning ‘Webpin’ (http://tinyurl.com/a5pawu) or there’s
> ‘wicd - home’ (http://wicd.sourceforge.net/)
>

Just a question. If I install wicd, does it remove NetworkManager ?

On 2009-01-01, ab@novell.com <ab@novell.com> wrote:
>
> My wife’s 11.0 system (HP dv6000 laptop) works on WPA2 (personal) at
> home and WPA 2 Enterprise at work… we use Network Manager to make the
> connection.

What version of NetworkManager do you use ?
because I installed the OpenSUSE 11.1 Default
( NetworkManager-0.7.0.r4323-1.13 ) and in “new wifi connection”
I don’t have the WPA-2, just “WPA personal” and “WPA enterprise”

On 2009-01-01, Ecky <Ecky@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> 1. Some older cards may not support WPA, are you sure yours does? Have
> you tried it with WEP at all, or even unsecured just to check that it
> will actually connect?
>

I don’t know him but I did. It does not connect with WPA and WEP, but it
does on unsecure wlan.

I have an Atheros AR242x

Im having the same thing happening to me. In 11.0 with knetworkmanager wpa2 worked. Now in 11.1 with the exact same harware/software setup it no longer works.

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To the right of WPA personal there should be a box that says “Expert Settings”. When you click on this box you should see wpa2/rsn below.

On 2009-01-03, plasmonics <plasmonics@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> To the right of WPA personal there should be a box that says “Expert
> Settings”. When you click on this box you should see wpa2/rsn below.
>

ok great I did not saw