Hello With more tweaking got wicd installed and working, albeit the wireless still fails to connect though using a wired connection am fine, something about DHCP, the router does give out IP's on the wired connection fine, plus other devices do connect to the wireless fine, but something somewhere in Suse 11.3 results in DHCP not being able to obtain an address when the lease is requested, below are the error messages from wicd
Sep 2 22:21:35 Oscar dhcpcd[8260]: wlan0: dhcpcd 3.2.3 starting Sep 2 22:21:35 Oscar dhcpcd[8260]: wlan0: hardware address = 00:22:5f:ab:01:80 Sep 2 22:21:35 Oscar dhcpcd[8260]: wlan0: broadcasting for a lease Sep 2 22:21:55 Oscar dhcpcd[8260]: wlan0: timed out Sep 2 22:21:55 Oscar dhcpcd[8260]: wlan0: trying to use old lease in `/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-wlan0.info' Sep 2 22:21:56 Oscar dhcpcd[8260]: wlan0: using IPV4LL address 169.254.243.82 Sep 2 22:21:56 Oscar dhcpcd[8260]: wlan0: adding IP address 169.254.243.82/16 Sep 2 22:21:56 Oscar dhcpcd[8260]: wlan0: exiting Sep 2 22:21:56 Oscar avahi-daemon[2042]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 169.254.243.82. Sep 2 22:21:56 Oscar avahi-daemon[2042]: New relevant interface wlan0.IPv4 for mDNS. Sep 2 22:21:56 Oscar avahi-daemon[2042]: Registering new address record for 169.254.243.82 on wlan0.IPv4. Sep 2 22:22:27 Oscar dhcpcd[8264]: wlan0: adding IP address 169.254.243.82/16 Cheers On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Daniel Bwente <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob > > Just gave it a go but cant seem to find a working rpm or installation > instructions for Suse 11.3 any idea where i could pick up the same? > > Cheers > > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Gipukan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Daniel, >> >> I had similar problems in Ubuntu. With and without WPA. I installed wicd >> and now all works much better. Give it a try but be aware that wicd will >> remove your original network manager. >> >> Rob >> HTTP: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gipukan/ >> >> >> On 09/02/2010 11:03 AM, Daniel Bwente wrote: >> >> Hello Guys >> >> Over the past few weeks i have had issues connecting to wireless networks >> using Suse 11.3, sometimes it connects flawlessly other times no number or >> restarts will get it to connect, sometimes it just keeps requesting for the >> WPA encryption key despite typing it in right. There is a bug where DHCP on >> the wlan interface fails if the SSID ends in a digit but I changed my home >> SSID to all letters, it worked for a while then became intermittent again, >> can't quite figure out what the problem is, any ideas would be welcome, >> below are some of the log messages ;( >> >> tail -f /var/log/NetworkManager >> >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Beginning >> DHCP transaction (timeout in 45 seconds) >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> dhclient started with pid >> 2808 >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 >> of 5 (IP6 Configure Get) scheduled... >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 >> of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete. >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 >> of 5 (IP6 Configure Get) started... >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 >> of 5 (IP6 Configure Get) complete. >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> DHCP: device wlan0 state >> changed (null) -> preinit >> Sep 2 08:38:33 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): DHCP transaction >> took too long, stopping it. >> Sep 2 08:38:33 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): canceled DHCP >> transaction, dhcp client pid >> 2808 >> >> Sep 2 08:38:33 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 >> of 5 (IP4 Configure Timeout) >> scheduled... >> >> Sep 2 08:38:33 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 >> of 5 (IP4 Configure Timeout) >> started... >> >> Sep 2 08:38:33 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state >> change: 7 -> 9 (reason >> 5) >> >> Sep 2 08:38:33 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed >> for access point (Campion >> ) >> >> Sep 2 08:38:33 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> Marking connection 'Campion >> ' >> invalid. >> >> Sep 2 08:38:33 Oscar NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) >> failed. >> >> >> ======================================== >> >> tail -f /var/log/messages >> >> >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client >> 4.1.1-P1 >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar dhclient: Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems >> Consortium. >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar dhclient: All rights reserved. >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar dhclient: For info, please visit >> https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar dhclient: >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar dhclient: Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:22:5f:ab:01:80 >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar dhclient: Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:22:5f:ab:01:80 >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback >> Sep 2 08:37:48 Oscar dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 >> port 67 interval 2 >> Sep 2 08:37:50 Oscar dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 >> port 67 interval 5 >> Sep 2 08:37:55 Oscar dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 >> port 67 interval 9 >> Sep 2 08:38:04 Oscar dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 >> port 67 interval 10 >> Sep 2 08:38:14 Oscar dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 >> port 67 interval 10 >> Sep 2 08:38:24 Oscar dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 >> port 67 interval >> 9 >> >> Sep 2 08:38:33 Oscar kernel: [ 193.873376] wlan0: deauthenticating from >> 00:24:b2:43:e7:86 by local choice (reason=3) >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> -- >> Dan >> >> +44 7748281942 >> >> "You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue. you will >> wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb and all the dead will know; This >> is Hector: the fool who thought he killed Achilles." >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LUG mailing [email protected]http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >> >> LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >> >> All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >> attachments if any). 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You won't have ears or a tongue. you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb and all the dead will know; This is Hector: the fool who thought he killed Achilles."
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