Bug 137969

Summary:	wireless card configuration
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	nicholas tung <gatoatigrado>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description nicholas tung 2005-12-10 17:43:29 UTC

I have a usb wireless card (netgear ma111) and it works fine but I had to add this autostart script

sudo /sbin/dhcpcd wlan0

and I editied /etc/sudoers so that it would do it without prompting for a password. I tried to put it in one of the init scripts, but it didn't work. It works fine for me but it wasn't automatic.

Comment 1 Joachim Gleissner 2005-12-12 09:04:44 UTC

This should be definitely not needed. How did you configure the device?

Comment 2 nicholas tung 2006-02-06 07:39:52 UTC

Sorry - I thought I posted this before. It might have been fixed in 10.1 beta 3 - I see there's a new kinternet (this is on another computer though so I can't test it).

ok I found the problem - dhcpcd was trying to resolve the ethernet, which wasn't connected. This should be resolved - I should not have to disable the wired ethernet to get the wireless to work.

Thank you,
Nicholas

Comment 3 Joachim Gleissner 2006-02-09 17:07:17 UTC

The "new" kinternet (you mean NetworkManager?) should make sure only ethernet devices with cable plugged in. If you are using the "old" system (netcontrol), you can set the startmode to ifplugd (in yast aka "on cable connection") for both devices (LAN and WLAN). Then the system will set up LAN when the ethernet device has a cable plugged in, and WLAN otherwise.