Bugzilla – Bug 115138
Samsung wlan pcmcia card must be configured again and again
Last modified: 2006-02-09 16:54:01 UTC
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A 7620 laptop. Installation program recognizes the wlan card and asks values for configuration. After installation I got a message that new hardware found (Samsung wlan card). After configuration ok. But after every booting web browser can't find pages until the card is configured again.
Are you using netapplet by chance?
I don't think so. Web browsing is my only net traffic. I go to system-yast-network device, where Samsung wlan card seems to be configured - I choose edit-next-next... After that web browsing goes fine again. But after booting the same process with yast must be done again. Sounds very much like layman experience - yes , at the moment I don't think myself very technically oriented-I just wait evereything goes the usual way as before. This seems to be the first SuSE version that recognizes the wlan card during installation and offers the opportunity to configer it as well right away. But the internet connection test fails. And after installation it appears the wlan configuration wasn't done at all during installation- the system recognizes the card as new hardware (even twice, I remember). After booting the configuration seems to be there (from thw view of yast network device interface (the settings are there as set (the hex key etc). But you have to run the configuration through to get web browsing work. The command "dhcpd -d wlan0" didn't work the usual way either, it got stuck with the first line of messages (don't remember now what it was, unfortunately). I think the problem may be connected with dhcp, somehow.
I checked the response to "dhcpcd -d wlan0" when after booting the web browser doesn't find pages - "dhcpcd: MAC address = 00:02:78:e1:b0:c0" and gets stuck with this message. The following is the yast network card configuration opening dialog: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Network Card Configuration Overview Samsung 11mbps WLAN Card DHCP Fujitsu Siemens VT6102 [Rhine-II] Not configured Samsung 11Mbps WLAN Card Device Name: wlan-id-00:02:78:e1:b0:c0 IP address assigned using DHCP Started automatically at boot ------------------------------------------------------------------- I just run through the configuration with next-button and after that everything seems to be ok again.
Please attach /var/log/messages.
Created attachment 48753 [details] /var/log/messages
Created attachment 48754 [details] /var/log/YaST2/ directory
The messages show that you often are disassociated and reassociated, but that's another story. Could you please also attach 'rcnetwork status' and 'rcnetwork start wlan0' output (directly after booting)?
Created attachment 48762 [details] rcnetwork status/start responses
I'm getting acquainted with the new way SuSE handles wireless connection configuration... I was guessing that somehow the problem is connected with WEP encryption. I configured encryption with a 128 WEP key. But when I after booting looked at Wireless LAN - Dialog (KInternet tool)I saw that it showed "encryption no". After reconfiguration it showed "encryption on" and everything worked again. So, it seems, the encryption information is losen or ignored when the system boots and dhcp cannot solve the web addresses. By the way "safe settings" = Failsafe boot choice ? I tried Failsafe and acpi=off option, but they didn't help.
Do you get a stable connection when avoiding usage of wpa_supplicant? You can configure that by adding PREFER_WPA_SUPPLICANT='no' to /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-* .
Anything new here?
No further information -> closing as invalid. Please reopen in case the problem still exists.