Hi.<br><br>I always thought that openSUSE would be a good choice for a mother in law, 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 used around 2007. During install, I was asked what ESSID and security to use, and I could net install using wireless, which was cool.<br>
<br>During boot, though, I was asked in the configuration (or "auto-configuration", maybe) stage, about the security, etc., and I got the answer wrong.<br><br>Well, that wrong answer wound up in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0, and 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 /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 Mom-in-law can use Google docs, etc.<br><br>But I feel like a curmudgeon. All too often, I cannot figure out the distro way for stuff and wind up working around it by doing it with my own init script.<br>
<br>Does anyone know how an openSUSE enthusiast would have solved this problem? My current two guesses are,<br><br> 1) install some YaST plugin that I lack. Currently I don't see the 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 clear="all"><br>-- <br> Ed Cashin <<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net">ecashin@noserose.net</a>><br> <a href="http://noserose.net/e/">http://noserose.net/e/</a><br>
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