Anybody using Open SuSE?

[XE1UFO]

Dear Friends:

I tried the OpenSuSE distro, installed it to a partition, but could not get wifi to connect, though it doe see my router, no matter what. Perhaps I am using the wrong kind of password (wep)?

I am a licensed ham radio nut, and SuSE has a ton of ham software built in, thus my interest.

Thanks in advance!

[Temetka]

I haven't used that distro in years.

The beauty of linux though is this: find the HAM radio programs you want and install them in another distro.

[portsample]

Well, hope I'm not too late on this reply, but openSuSE is all I've been running since 2001 when it was still a German company. I've installed on a 760ED, 770, T21, T30,T41 as well as T60's and T61's. Installation and configuration has gotten massively straightforward in the last few years. Just my $0.02.

[felixzero]

Does the wifi work with another distribution or Windows?
Do you see the network list?

[EvoT61]

if your pass is wrong it should show up ( im linux user and if my wifi pass inserted incorrectly - it warns me ) so this one should fall back, next if its intels , try to disable N and use 2.5Ghz . wifi is very strange thing ..even says N is strong and future, but its weak and useless in my experience... if im using N signal on x230 ... im loosing signal when i change the room , so i have to go back to router room to get back on it . try use G (5ghz ) i think or A .. its 5Ghz, or maybe you check your router and see what settings are .. 2.5 or 5

[XE1UFO]

Does the wifi work with another distribution or Windows?
Do you see the network list?

The wifi works fine on the Windows sideof the same laptop.

[ajkula66]

The wifi works fine on the Windows sideof the same laptop.

With the same WEP encryption?

[jaspen-meyer]

Have you tried a few other wifi cards? If you have some around, that's the first thing I'd try. On my x22 the original card would see my network but would not connect - it was an 802.11b wifi card. Changing the card fixed the problem - I changed to Atheros as it is well supported by Linux.

If you don't have another wifi card to try....search the web for your [specific card] and "Open SuSE", i.e. "Intel 2100 Open SuSE" and see if there are some steps needed to load a driver.

Check which card you have installed with one of these commands 'lspci' or 'lshw' (or open the machine and check).

Also try this: http://www.opensuse-guide.org/wlan.php

[Dekks]

Be aware testing old wifi cards on linux atm there is a regression in the commonly used redhat networkmanager package namely bug 1371623 that prevents them connecting at all.