wireless internet connection

[goofybritt]

* Moderator Edit: this post has been broken off an old thread to start new thread...


That explanation did not work for me when I tried it. I'm so distraught. I bought this stupid wireless usb thingy because it said it was supposed to work with linux. Well. It's not. Somehow ifplugd is managing my ethernet and wlan0 and i can't make it stop so I can use ifup/ifdown.

I'm pretty much giving up on it. I'll just have to stay near the router w/ ethernet cord attached.

I've tried to get help from the suse forum, nothing worked. This, didn't work. I've been playing w/ settings all damn night. Forget it.

[maserator]

Goofybritt, What distro and version are you using? Tell me more....
What kind of "USB thingy"?
What kind of Computer?

[goofybritt]

Hello, I do not see your reply here on the forum but I got an email saying someone replied w/ Goofybritt, what distro and what version are you using? Tell me more...

So here is what I can give you. If you need more information, I will need help doing so. I am fairly new to linux as a whole, so I have limited knowledge of commands, and the like. :/

Thank you for listening.

Brittany

Processor (CPU): Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.30GHz
Speed: 1,296.80 MHz
Temperature: 56°C
OS: Linux 2.6.22.13-0.3-bigsmp i686
Current user: brittdun@notebook
System: openSUSE 10.3 (i586)
KDE: 3.5.7 "release 72.4"
Vendor: Intel Corporation
Model: 915 GM
Driver: intel (3D Support)
Total memory (RAM): 1.2 GB
Free memory: 421.0 MB (+ 577.6 MB Caches)
Free swap: 3.0 GB

notebook:/sbin # ifup wlan0
Network interface is managed from NetworkManager
NetworkManager will be advised to set up wlan0
but it cannot be assured from here.

notebook:/sbin # ifplugd wlan0
Sorry, there is already an instance of ifplugd for eth0 running.

notebook:/sbin # ifdown eth0
Network interface is managed from NetworkManager
NetworkManager cannot be advised to take down an interface.
Set up another interface instead.

**changed to traditional method w/ ifup in Network Settings in yast**

notebook:/sbin # ifup wlan0
Network interface is managed from NetworkManager
NetworkManager will be advised to set up wlan0
but it cannot be assured from here. ((HOW?? I CHANGED IT??)

SO I then started knetworkmanager.

notebook:/sbin # knetworkmanager
kbuildsycoca running...
notebook:/sbin # QPainter::begin: Cannot paint null pixmap
QPainter::setWorldMatrix: Will be reset by begin()
QPainter::setPen: Will be reset by begin()
QPainter::setClipRegion: Will be reset by begin()
QPainter::setClipping: Will be reset by begin()
QPainter::setClipRegion: Will be reset by begin()
QPainter::setClipping: Will be reset by begin()
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
QObject::connect: Parentheses expected, slot SettingsDialog::
QObject::connect: (sender name: 'notify_dialog')
QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'SettingsDialog'

All the while I used KNM to select 'connect to (my) network' under Wireless Networks.
Always get Connection Failure: Could not connect to the network "my network". OK.

Also now I cannot connect to the device eth0 (integrated lan) - which I've had no probs connecting to except for NOW that I'm messing around w/ settings.

Activating Wireless Network Connection
(my network eth1)
Never goes past 28% - Activation stage: Configuring device.

Fails to connect.

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notebook:/sbin # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Proces
sor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Exp
ress Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Gr
aphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US
B UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (IC H6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Contr oller (rev 03)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LO M) Ethernet Controller Mobile (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)