Wow. That is it. Thanks!<br><br>I got almost there, but I never tought to click "Next" after getting there before, because none of the stuff there looked relevant, so I hadn't edited any fields yet---didn't seem like the right time to click "Next".<br>
<br>Anyway, now I am a little more SUSE educated. Much obliged.<br><br>(Email sent from openSUSE. :)<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:40 PM, James Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:James.Taylor@eastcobbgroup.com" target="_blank">James.Taylor@eastcobbgroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yast|Network Devices|Network Settings.<br>
Select the wireless card and edit it.<br>
Select the Hardware tab, select Next button, and you're in the wireless Device settings.<br>
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-jt<br>
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>>> Ed Cashin <<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net">ecashin@noserose.net</a>> 12/15/2012 02:38 PM >>><br>
<div><div class="h5">Hi.<br>
<br>
I always thought that openSUSE would be a good choice for a mother in law,<br>
along with Mac OS X.<br>
<br>
I gave it a try, and I have a Linksys wireless PCI card in a PC I bought<br>
used around 2007. During install, I was asked what ESSID and security to<br>
use, and I could net install using wireless, which was cool.<br>
<br>
During boot, though, I was asked in the configuration (or<br>
"auto-configuration", maybe) stage, about the security, etc., and I got the<br>
answer wrong.<br>
<br>
Well, that wrong answer wound up in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0, and<br>
I wasn't able to use YaST to re-populate the file with good info.<br>
<br>
I was able to use wpa_gui to get a nice<br>
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file, such that I could do,<br>
<br>
killall wpa_supplicant<br>
wpa_supplicant ... -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf &<br>
dhclient wlan0<br>
<br>
... so I made a new config script that does those things, and now<br>
Mom-in-law can use Google docs, etc.<br>
<br>
But I feel like a curmudgeon. All too often, I cannot figure out the<br>
distro way for stuff and wind up working around it by doing it with my own<br>
init script.<br>
<br>
Does anyone know how an openSUSE enthusiast would have solved this<br>
problem? My current two guesses are,<br>
<br>
1) install some YaST plugin that I lack. Currently I don't see the<br>
ability to control parameters like ESSID through YaST's network settings, or<br>
<br>
2) re-run that auto-configure post-install step somehow.<br>
<br>
--<br>
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