[PLUG] Problem Wireless USB Device in OpenSuSe. Works in Ubuntu

Nathan Williams nathan at nathanewilliams.com
Mon Jun 28 15:34:29 UTC 2010


I've had tons of issues w/ knetwork mgr and wireless nics. Tried it out in opensuse gnome? I just went through the same slog in kde opensuse and kde fedora w/ no luck, but gnome's networkmgr worked like a charm.



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On Jun 28, 2010 8:29 AM, Keith <ac7xc1nx at comcast.net> wrote: 

 It appears that everything is setup, but I have no network access. ping

or traceroute do not work.



wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"dlink"  

          Mode:Managed  

          Frequency:2.432 GHz  

          Access Point: 00:18:E7:CB:B2:20   

          Bit Rate=36 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   

          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key: foo

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-38 dBm  

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0



linux-nxy3:~ # ifup wlan0

    wlan0     name: RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter

    wlan0     warning: WPA configured but may be unsupported

    wlan0     warning: by this device

    wlan0     warning: wpa_supplicant already running on interface

DHCP4 client is already running on wlan0

IP address: 192.168.0.103/24





This is from the router. It shows that the USB WiFI card is connected,

but no network activity with the wireless USB card in OpenSuSE.



Wireless LAN

Wireless Radio : Enabled

802.11 Mode : Mixed 802.11n, 802.11g and 802.11b

Channel Width : 20MHz

Channel : 5

Secondary Channel :  

WISH : Active

Wi-Fi Protected Setup : Enabled/Configured

Guest Wi-Fi Protected Setup : Enabled/Not Configured

SSID List

Network Name (SSID) 	Guest 	MAC Address 	Security Mode

dlink 	No 	00:18:e7:cb:b2:20 	WPA/WPA2 - Personal 





 If I plug the USB WiFI into a Ubuntu Laptop it works with no problems.

There must be something else I have to do? I have gone into YaST network

setup and added DHCP support.





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