Upon running YaST the only icon in the left window is Hardware. When compared with the openSuSE website YaST information site (YaST/About - openSUSE) shows many more options: software, system, network devices, etc.
Is there something wrong with my YaST install (have run zypper reinstall of YaST with no changes to my situation)?
The hidden undercurrent here is that I can’t get the wireless working without some ability to modify the settings.
I saw your previous post (wireless) and your weird symptom of
most of Yast missing.
It’s been 24 hours, and my guess is that no one else has run into this.
My recommendation would be to re-do the whole installation. (Hard for
me to believe that lightning will strike you again the 2nd time. rotfl!)
(I installed from the KDE LiveCD, but I’m assuming you used the DVD, since
you say you’ve got KDE3.5. Tho, it really shouldn’t matter which way
you installed. There’s a boot-option to test the install-media…run that
first.)
I’d also recommend that, if you have a wired-ethernet-connection that
works, use that. I’m a believer in doing patches BEFORE tackling
wireless, as there are a number of glitches that got patched that
affect wireless. And, one of the first patches is to Yast itself.
Hi
I agree, something has gone a bit haywire and also who knows what else
has been affected. To be honest I’ve never seen that sort of thing
happen… also it should have detected the wireless card and add the
firmware. It’s almost as though the install didn’t finish the final
stage of ‘auto configuration’ (you did leave the check box marked?)
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default
up 12:54, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.16
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12
First off, thanks for all the insightful assistance, now to document the quirk…
Did a media check on the install dvd and found an error ~80% through the check. Reburned from the iso and that dvd checked out fine. Reinstalled via the QC approved media and now my YaST looks like it should. Would have thought that a corrupt install disc would have crashed or given some other form of error information but I guess that having a partionally functional machine is better than nothing.
The wireless is showing up as not configured in the yast network settings (now that I can finally see that). Am starting to research on how to fix that.
Side note is that in the reinstall process I’ve lost sound, but one thing at a time…
Software search for iwl yielded one for my hardware and let it install. Did a reboot just in case but still get ‘not configured’ in network settings with an error note to see dmesg output for details. Where might I find that? Also researching this seems to point to madwifi as a solution for the Atheros AR242 wireless cards (which is what I have).
No go on the sound, the volume’s up and I get nothing when I hit the sound test.