Re: [opensuse] NIC installation -- SOLVED!!!!!!
- From: Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:44:00 +0200
At 21:47:12 on Saturday Saturday 10 October 2009, Aaron Kulkis
<akulkis00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Stan Goodman wrote:
I FOUND IT!!
There was nothing wrong with the Ethernet card or the wireless card
(aka Network card). The glitch was in the BIOS.
The BIOS, naturally, has a checkbox for "Enable Internal Wireless
WLAN", and this was CHECKED, as it should be. It also has a checkbox
for ""Enable Internal Bluetooth", which I had checked because,
although I have no Bluetooth devices now, I had intended to acquire a
headset. Since both are checked, and there is no indication whatever
that they are mutually exclusive, I thought I might as well prepare
for the future by enabling both.
They are, however, mutually exclusive, and this became clear after I
unchecked Bluetooth on a hunch and spruced up the Network Devices
window, I am able to communicate with the 'Net by hard connection to
the router, but not by wireless. I can live with this for the time
being.
The paradox is that disenabling Bluetooth in favor of the
_wireless_card_ has permitted the Ethernet card to become visible,
but has not affected the wireless card.
That is not the only bug in the BIOS: The BIOS behavior of the
NUMLOCK key interacts with the behavior as set by Control Center >
Peripherals > Keyboard in an unexpected way.
My gratitude to everyone who tried to help me solve the problem.
Which BIOS is this?
The startup screen says "Revision A00", which sounds like it hasn't been
revised at all.
This is a good opportunity to report that the great success described in
my note above disappeared in the course of rebooting. The settings of
Network Devises are all as I left them, and the Ethernet is reported
as "not connected", which means that it is seen by the system. It seems
that now now that software issues are resolved, I have a hardware
problem.
--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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