Re: [opensuse] 11.4 Wireless stopped working
- From: Carl Hartung <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:01:00 -0500
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:01:57 -0600
Mike Grau <m.grau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all,
A few months ago I bought a Lenovo G560 laptop and was delighted to
find I could easily ditch Ubuntu since when I installed openSUSE
11.4, the wireless "just worked" using the network management widget
and KDE (4.6.0 it looks like).
A couple of days ago my unsecured wireless connection stopped working
on this machine (my wife's laptop with some other OS connects). I
cannot "enable wireless"; the checkbox to enable it is greyed out or
immediately the checkbox will not stayed checked. I have tried using
ifup also without success also:
wlan0 device: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless N
openSUSE 11.4 2.6.37.6-0.9-desktop SMP PREEMPT x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
GNU/Linux
I believe, but do not know, that this problem started after some
updates. I also had the factory repo enabled at the time. Stupidly, I
didn't pay attention to what was updating as 11.4 had been so trouble
free and rock solid since the installation that I had become
complacent.
How can I find out what was updated and roll back the updates? Or
what other steps might I take to resolve the problem?
Thanks!
-- Mike
Hi Mike,
First thing is generate a reverse chronological list of packages
installed:
as regular user:
rpm -qa --last > ~/Desktop/updateslist.txt
Next is to look for error log entries containing 'wlan0':
('su -' to root privileges or use sudo)
cat /var/log/messages | grep wlan0 | less
(scroll up or down using arrow and PgUp/PgDn keys; tap 'q' to quit
'less')
Next is same but looking for warnings:
cat /var/log/warn | grep wlan0 | less
Another clue finding option is, as regular user:
locate .rpmsave
You'll need to have the correct cli utilities package installed to run
this and it will have to index things before it will return meaningful
results... you can force an immediate indexing by running 'updatedb'
hth & regards,
Carl
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