weird way of starting wireless on my SuSE 10

**pliu59** · 11-09-2005

hey everyone, I have KDE,

eveytime i turn on my laptop and try to connect with my wireless, it doesn't work. the only way it'll work is if I go to

YaST Control Center --> Network devices --> Network card

Then, I click on the name of my wireless card --> edit --> next --> next --> next.

By doing that, at the end it saves the network configuration and does a bunch of stuff including 'activating network services'. Then i can finally connect to the internet. Under the wireless card, it does already say 'start automatically at boot' so i don't know why i have to go through those steps all the time, is there any way that i can avoid this and have it activate my network services automatically as soon as i logon? Thanks.

**AlexK** · 11-09-2005

Since you are using SUSE, I assume KInternet is setup to manage your internet connections? Look for something which looks like 2 wires connecting to each other in the taskbar.

Now right click on this icon, under Settings -> various settings, tell it to start up with the interface wlan0 or whatever your wireless card is called. And tell it to start on KDE login.

**pliu59** · 11-09-2005

thanks for your reply, but when i went to check the options, the box was already checked for starting on KDE login and it was already set to eth1 which is what my wireless card is. is there any other way for 'activating the network services'? thanks again.

**AlexK** · 11-09-2005

have you configured your wired card? If so tell the system to bring it (the wired card) manually or on cable connection. Now when you start SUSE, without going into yast and resetting up the card, can you paste the outputs from the following commands:

Code:

ping -c 4 www.google.com
route

**bigtomrodney** · 11-09-2005

When you're using Kinternet you can manage the connection and bring it up and down by clicking on the tray icon. If your wireless access point is not available every time you boot I recommend setting it to manual and then bringing it up using Kinternet. This should speed booting slightly for you. Does managing it with Kinternet work for you?

**pliu59** · 11-09-2005

Originally Posted by AlexK

have you configured your wired card? If so tell the system to bring it (the wired card) manually or on cable connection. Now when you start SUSE, without going into yast and resetting up the card, can you paste the outputs from the following commands:

Code:

ping -c 4 www.google.com
route

Below are the commands that i ran:

Code:

linux&#58;~ # ping -c 4 www.google.com
ping&#58; unknown host www.google.com

linux&#58;~ # route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
loopback        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo

**anomie** · 11-09-2005

If so tell the system to bring it (the wired card) manually or on cable connection.

This suggestion should work.

Quick explanation: Under SuSE, when you have both an ethernet card and a wireless card set up the default way, you know someone's nameservers will always get clobbered.

So let's say the wireless card comes up first. It puts its nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf. No problem... until the ethernet card comes up - then it dumps its own nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf, thereby clobbering what was there. Then you may have no name resolution for your wireless card, so you can't cruise the web.

The way you're doing this in YaST is effectively bringing down and back up the wireless card, which of course clobbers /etc/resolv.conf yet again with the nameservers the wireless connection relys on. So changing the ethernet card to activate when a cable is plugged in should be a good workaround for you.

**pliu59** · 11-09-2005

oops, i forgot to set the wired card for manual or on connection, let me do that and i'll get back here for a reply

**pliu59** · 11-09-2005

i set the wired card to start 'manually' and then restarted my laptop, and then logged on and still had to go through that stupid process of getting my wireless to work...then i tried setting the wired card to start 'on connection' and then restarted my laptop again, and then logged on and still had to go through that process to get my wireless working...the only difference is that when it's on 'on connection' it makes a beep when the saving configuration runs through the 'activating network services',

Code:

linux&#58;~ # ping -c 4 www.google.com
ping&#58; unknown host www.google.com
linux&#58;~ # route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
loopback        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
linux&#58;~ #

**anomie** · 11-10-2005

Ethernet card should be: When hotplugged (or whatever the option reads exactly).

Wireless card should be: At boot time.

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