[olug] Getting wireless running

[Thomas D. Williamson]

I finally got all the right boxes checked for the Network Manager in  
gnome to run and then I was asked for the keyring password which I had  
set up. When all the security was acceptable the wireless connected.

Thanks for the suggestions on the keyring.

Tom

Quoting "Thomas D. Williamson" <twilliam at inebraska.com>:

> I finally found the way to clear and reset the keyring password. That
> has not changed anything on the wireless side as I'd hoped.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Quoting Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com>:
>
>> I think that the keyring uses the user password. Although that could be my
>> RedHat/Fedora/Ubuntu background speaking, because SuSE is weird in that
>> respect, at least with sudo.
>> On Aug 15, 2011 9:11 PM, "Thomas D. Williamson" <twilliam at inebraska.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I got an Acer Aspire a while back. I have been trying to get the
>>> wireless interface to work. When I found out what card was in it I was
>>> able to install what appears to be the right module through an RPM I
>>> found on the openSuSE forum. When I am in Network Settings -YaST, the
>>> correct network card shows up (by the MAC address), and when I set the
>>> access point and the key to access, everything looks correct. It
>>> appears in the next work tools, and when I use that to ping the
>>> router, access point, or other computers in the home network, there
>>> are no packets returned.
>>>
>>> I also went to the Network Connections to see if there was something
>>> there that could be used to get the connection set up. I went through
>>> that, only when I entered the key to the access point, I am asked for
>>> the keyring password, I first just entered it blank, and was told the
>>> password failed. I tried the root password and that failed as well. I
>>> was not asked to set this when I installed openSuSE 11.4. I looked for
>>> methods to either set one or delete it, but none of the suggestions I
>>> found seemed to get me there. When I tried to open
>>> gnome-keyring-manager, I was told there is no file of that name. I
>>> tried another method to clear .gnome2/keyrings/, but returned that the
>>> directory was not found.
>>>
>>> I also thought I might be having a problem with my home connections,
>>> so I went to a public location. The windows OS found it fine and
>>> connected, just like at home, but openSuSE found the access point, but
>>> did not connect.
>>>
>>> This is a Broadcomm BCM43255 802.11 b/g/n controller.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how to get this working?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Tom Williamson
>>>
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