[ale] openSUSE 12.x and ath5k wlan0

[Ed Cashin]

Wow.  That is it.  Thanks!

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".

Anyway, now I am a little more SUSE educated.  Much obliged.

(Email sent from openSUSE.  :)


On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:40 PM, James Taylor <
James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:

> Yast|Network Devices|Network Settings.
> Select the wireless card and edit it.
> Select the Hardware tab, select Next button, and you're in the wireless
> Device settings.
>
> -jt
>
>
>
> James Taylor
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
>
>
>
> >>> Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> 12/15/2012   02:38 PM >>>
> Hi.
>
> I always thought that openSUSE would be a good choice for a mother in law,
> along with Mac OS X.
>
> 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.
>
> During boot, though, I was asked in the configuration (or
> "auto-configuration", maybe) stage, about the security, etc., and I got the
> answer wrong.
>
> 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.
>
> I was able to use wpa_gui to get a nice
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file, such that I could do,
>
>   killall wpa_supplicant
>   wpa_supplicant ... -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf &
>   dhclient wlan0
>
> ... so I made a new config script that does those things, and now
> Mom-in-law can use Google docs, etc.
>
> 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.
>
> Does anyone know how an openSUSE enthusiast would have solved this
> problem?  My current two guesses are,
>
>   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
>
>   2) re-run that auto-configure post-install step somehow.
>
> --
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