YAST2 forgets manual configuration of the wifi card

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#1

Hi all,

Installed OpenSUSE 11.4 with XFCE on MSI Wind U90.
Unfortunately my RTL8187se buit-in wi-fi doesn’t work.
Finally found that driver r8180 works. After YAST2 configuration it worked, but after reboot stopped working.
I’ve found that YAST2 forgets my manual configuration of the wifi card (forgets all settings).
I’ve tried to remove card from YAST2 and configure again from scratch, but it forgets all my settings - mainly the module name - r8180, and without this driver network doesn’t work!
What to do?

#2

Check my comments here:
traditional (ifup) and networkmanager problems using KDE 11.4
I’m not sure whether they are relevant to your problem, but it’s a possibility. So experiment with switching to dhclient for handling dhcp.

#3

Sorry, I was not quite correct, YAST forgets only wi-fi driver settings, others are saved correctly.
So the question is: where, in which file, settings of the wi-fi card driver (the driver that should be used from the kernel) are stored?

#4

On 03/17/2011 01:36 AM, levne wrote:
>
> Sorry, I was not quite correct, YAST forgets only wi-fi driver settings,
> others are saved correctly.
> So the question is: where, in which file, settings of the wi-fi card
> driver (the driver that should be used from the kernel) are stored?

/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-XXXX. Replace the Xs with the name shown in the
/usr/sbin/iwconfig output.