I have just finished installing openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) on my new desktop. I have a Netgear WG111v2 USB Wireless card (rtl8187). I have always had a bit of trouble with this on openSUSE. It would never connect if I chose to configure the network with the traditional "ifup", but even when I use the Network Manager, it's pretty hit and miss. Sometimes it connects, sometimes it won't, and when it does, it doesn't usually last very long. On every other Linux flavor, the following series of commands get's me connected to my home network with this card:
# ifconfig wlan0 down # modprobe rtl8187 # ifconfig wlan0 up # iwconfig wlan0 essid 'myEssid' key 'myHexWEPKey' enc 'myHexWEPKey' (if dhcpd was already running): # rm /var/run/dhcpd-wlan0.pid # dhcpd wlan0 This has always worked on every modern distro except openSUSE (Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, LFS LiveCD, Fedora, etc). Everything goes fine (iwconfig lists wlan0 as associated with the access point, the correct keys are listed), but the dhcpd command times out, and bingo, no internet. I have also tried various other wifi utilities, such as WFIF-Radar and Wicd. I read something on another thread that suggested installing compat-wireless-kmp from schmolle1980's repo (I threw in rt*-cvs-kmp from there for good measure), but it made no difference. Here's some dmesg output: After a failed attempt to connect via KNetworkManager: wlan0: Initial auth_alg=1 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx wlan0: RX authentication from 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx (alg=1 transaction=2 status=13) wlan0: AP denied authentication (auth_alg=1 code=13) wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx wlan0: RX authentication from 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx (alg=1 transaction=2 status=13) wlan0: AP denied authentication (auth_alg=1 code=13) wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx wlan0: RX authentication from 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx (alg=1 transaction=2 status=13) wlan0: AP denied authentication (auth_alg=1 code=13) wlan0: authentication with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx timed out Interestingly, I do not get any dmesg output while trying to manually connect with iwconfig. After a succesful attempt to connect via KNetworkManager: wlan0: Initial auth_alg=1 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx wlan0: Initial auth_alg=1 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx wlan0: RX authentication from 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx (alg=1 transaction=2 status=13) wlan0: AP denied authentication (auth_alg=1 code=13) wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:18:01:81:a1:1a wlan0: RX authentication from 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx (alg=1 transaction=2 status=13) wlan0: AP denied authentication (auth_alg=1 code=13) wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:18:01:81:a1:1a wlan0: RX authentication from 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx (alg=1 transaction=2 status=13) wlan0: AP denied authentication (auth_alg=1 code=13) wlan0: authentication with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx timed out wlan0: Initial auth_alg=1 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx wlan0: RX authentication from 00:18:01:81:a1:1a (alg=1 transaction=2 status=13) wlan0: AP denied authentication (auth_alg=1 code=13) wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx wlan0: RX authentication from 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx (alg=1 transaction=2 status=13) wlan0: AP denied authentication (auth_alg=1 code=13) wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx wlan0: RX authentication from 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx (alg=1 transaction=2 status=13) wlan0: AP denied authentication (auth_alg=1 code=13) wlan0: authentication with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx timed out wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx wlan0: RX authentication from 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx wlan0: authentication frame received from 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx , but not in authenticate state - ignored wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:My:He:x:Ke:yx (capab=0x471 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:My:He:x:Ke:yx ) wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:My:He:x:Ke:yx ) ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team It appears to be trying several times before it connects. And after losing the connection: usb 3-3: USB disconnect, address 2 usb 3-3.2: USB disconnect, address 5 usb 3-3.2.1: USB disconnect, address 7 usb 3-3.2.3: USB disconnect, address 8 usb 3-3.4: USB disconnect, address 6 usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9 usb 3-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-3:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-3:1.0: 4 ports detected usb 3-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=2504 usb 3-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 usb 3-3.2: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10 usb 3-3.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-3.2:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-3.2:1.0: 4 ports detected ... usb 3-3.4: Product: NETGEAR WG111v2 usb 3-3.4: Manufacturer: NETGEAR WG111v2 ... usb-storage: device scan complete And now the KNetworkManager applet says "NetworkManager is not running." It appears that the kernel decided to rescan all my hardware and lost the connection. This is driving me insane! What is the problem?
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