Configuring Wireless on openSUSE

[Bunyameen Mohamed]

I am a linux virgine. Last night I have installed openSUSE 11.1 on my laptop. The default network manager is not detecting any wireless networks. If anyone helps me to configure wireless on SUSE will be a great help for me. Thanks


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[dean-62]

Bunyameen Mohamed wrote:
> I am a linux virgine. Last night I have installed openSUSE 11.1 on my
> laptop. The default network manager is not detecting any wireless
> networks. If anyone helps me to configure wireless on SUSE will be a
> great help for me. Thanks
>
Isn't this an ubuntu mailing list?

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[Fred Roller]

Bunyameen Mohamed wrote:
> I am a linux virgine. Last night I have installed openSUSE 11.1 on my
> laptop. The default network manager is not detecting any wireless
> networks. If anyone helps me to configure wireless on SUSE will be a
> great help for me. Thanks
>
Try here:

    http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org

if it doesn't work out for you then try:

    http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Select alternative download link and click the Download Ubuntu 8.04
LTS.  It's a live distro and can tell you if the network manager will
work for you.

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[John Scott-8]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bunyameen Mohamed <bunubuntu@...>
To: ubuntu-users@...
Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 2:43 am
Subject: Configuring Wireless on openSUSE

>I am a linux virgine. Last night I have installed openSUSE 11.1 on my
laptop. The default network manager is not detecting any wireless
networks. If anyone helps me to configure wireless on SUSE will be a
great help for me. Thanks





The default Network tool installed by suse in 11.1 is crap. It is easy
to click from the panel but it has no options and does not support WPA
at all. I tried to connect from it for over a week before figuring out
how to get connected. You will need to switch to a more capable tool.
Unfortunately it has been 4 or 5 months since I have used it so I don't
remember what it is called. Just look through the control panel until
you find the tool that lists WPA. This tool should work. That is, if
you know your network card is already configured.

Regards,

John

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[Chris-75]

On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:18:39 +1100
dean <deanubuntu@...> wrote:

> Bunyameen Mohamed wrote:
> > I am a linux virgine. Last night I have installed openSUSE 11.1 on
> > my laptop. The default network manager is not detecting any
> > wireless networks. If anyone helps me to configure wireless on SUSE
> > will be a great help for me. Thanks
> >
> Isn't this an ubuntu mailing list?
>

Umm - Why yes! However, it's called Ubuntu BUT spelt OpenSUSE?!

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[Robert Holtzman]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, John Scott wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bunyameen Mohamed <bunubuntu@...>
> To: ubuntu-users@...
> Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 2:43 am
> Subject: Configuring Wireless on openSUSE
>
>> I am a linux virgine. Last night I have installed openSUSE 11.1 on my
> laptop. The default network manager is not detecting any wireless
> networks. If anyone helps me to configure wireless on SUSE will be a
> great help for me. Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
> The default Network tool installed by suse in 11.1 is crap. It is easy
> to click from the panel but it has no options and does not support WPA
> at all. I tried to connect from it for over a week before figuring out
> how to get connected. You will need to switch to a more capable tool.
> Unfortunately it has been 4 or 5 months since I have used it so I don't
> remember what it is called. Just look through the control panel until
> you find the tool that lists WPA. This tool should work. That is, if
> you know your network card is already configured.

What he needs is wicd.

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[Mike McMullin]

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 07:13 +0530, Bunyameen Mohamed wrote:
> I am a linux virgine. Last night I have installed openSUSE 11.1 on my
> laptop. The default network manager is not detecting any wireless
> networks. If anyone helps me to configure wireless on SUSE will be a
> great help for me. Thanks

  You might want to subscribe to the open-SuSE mailing list.


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[Fred A. Miller]

Robert Holtzman wrote:

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, John Scott wrote:

  

-----Original Message-----
From: Bunyameen Mohamed bunubuntu@...
To: ubuntu-users@...
Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 2:43 am
Subject: Configuring Wireless on openSUSE

    

I am a linux virgine. Last night I have installed openSUSE 11.1 on my
      

laptop. The default network manager is not detecting any wireless
networks. If anyone helps me to configure wireless on SUSE will be a
great help for me. Thanks





The default Network tool installed by suse in 11.1 is crap. It is easy
to click from the panel but it has no options and does not support WPA
    

Hang on, Bubba! That ISN'T true at all!! OpenSUSE DOES support WPA personal AND enterprise in 11.1. Considering I've used it on a number of boxen since 11.1 released, I can speak with full authority!

at all. I tried to connect from it for over a week before figuring out
how to get connected. You will need to switch to a more capable tool.
Unfortunately it has been 4 or 5 months since I have used it so I don't
remember what it is called. Just look through the control panel until
you find the tool that lists WPA. This tool should work. That is, if
you know your network card is already configured.
    

What he needs is wicd.
  

No, all he has to use is use the openSUSE tool, Yast, which we all should have for all distros., and define the wireless connection using the ifup method instead of Knetworkmanager.

Fred

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[fyrbrds-2]

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From: Fred A. Miller <fmiller@...>
Sent: Sun, Nov 8, 2009 5:26 am
Subject: Re: Configuring Wireless on openSUSE




Robert Holtzman wrote:



On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, John Scott wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Bunyameen Mohamed <bunubuntu@...>
To: ubuntu-users@...
Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 2:43 am
Subject: Configuring Wireless on openSUSE





>>The default Network tool installed by suse in 11.1 is crap. It is easy
>>to click from the panel but it has no options and does not support WPA


>Hang on, Bubba! That ISN'T true at all!! OpenSUSE DOES support WPA
>personal AND enterprise in 11.1. Considering I've used it on a number
>of boxen since 11.1 released, I can speak with full authority!


If you reread the statement, I did not say SuSE doe not support WPA. I
said the default tool does not list it and that he should switch config
tools. I went on to say that it took me a week to get it working.
Obviously it would not make sense to say WPA is not supported and then
say in the next sentence that I got it to work. I don't know which tool
he is using but if WPA is not an option, do not assume that it is
simply automatic. If it is not listed, it will not work in the default
tool. I am simply trying to help him avoid wasting time by thinking he
is doing something wrong when he may be using a tool that does not even
try to connect to a WPA AP. That info would have saved me a week when
this happened to me.

John

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