I just installed OpenSuse 11.1 with KDE 4.1.3 on a netbook. It's a dual boot with windows XP. In XP, the wireless card works perfectly, but in openSuse, it never connects. It can see the wireless networks available but it won't connect to my network!

I tried this to no avail: Wireless will not work when dual-boot with Windows XP&Vista | SUSE & openSUSE

I'm using:

Asus EEE 1002 HA
Wireless Card: Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter
WPA2 (although when I switched the router to WPA, it still didn't work)

LOT'S OF INFO
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/sbin/lspci -v

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01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Device 1a3b:1067                                                                           
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18                                                     
        Memory at fbef0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]                                             
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2                                                         
        Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Count=1/1 Enable-                       
        Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00                                                   
        Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1                                                     
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting                                                         
                UESta:  DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
                UEMsk:  DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
                UESvrt: DLP+ SDES- TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
                CESta:  RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-                                   
                CESta:  RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-                                   
                AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+ ChkEn-
        Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
        Kernel driver in use: ath9k
        Kernel modules: ath9k

/usr/sbin/hwinfo --wlan

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18: PCI 100.0: 0282 WLAN controller                             
  [Created at pci.318]                                         
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_2a                 
  Unique ID: y9sn.XPdIv0PRSzE                                   
  Parent ID: hoOk.dFyVbcq0vm4                                   
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:01:00.0       
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)"
  Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."
  Device: pci 0x002a "AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1a3b
  SubDevice: pci 0x1067
  Revision: 0x01
  Driver: "ath9k"
  Driver Modules: "ath9k"
  Device File: wlan0
  Features: WLAN
  Memory Range: 0xfbef0000-0xfbefffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 18 (no events)
  HW Address: 00:22:41:56:21:ff
  Link detected: yes
  WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
  WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462
  WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
  WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
  Module Alias: "pci:v0000168Cd0000002Asv00001A3Bsd00001067bc02sc80i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: ath9k is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ath9k"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #7 (PCI bridge)

UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_2a
Firmware requests (no idea if it's relevant): firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-1c-02

(I have no idea where to find that firmware file!)

My network is encrypted with WPA2 but when I run "/usr/sbin/iwconfig" it outputs:

wlan0
...elided...
Access Point: Not-Associated
...elided...
Encryption Key: off

However, I've tried:
1. Turning on broadcasting
2. Changing my password to have no symbols or numbers
3. Turning security off entirely
4. Trying diff. security methods
5. Using a static IP

None of the above resulted in getting it to work.

I also ran collectNWData.sh and I get diff. errors depending on what things I've tried but always these two:

CND0120E - Network card %1 has no IP address
CND0300E - No dhcp server found on interface %1

And I've gotten:

CND0380I: No WLANs detected on interface wlan0.
CND0330E: WLAN credential problems exist on interface wlan0
(Although the last one has gone away now for some reason)

I also tried this (altering wpa_supplicant.conf) but it didn't work so i undid it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=263136

What could be going on? This works on the same computer in windows!

Here's the output of collectNWData:

http://rafb.net/p/twjVwj85.html

Try using YaST to configure connecting to your wireless network ( through the ifup method ). You could also install Wicd from a build service repository.

bcooksley wrote:Try using YaST to configure connecting to your wireless network ( through the ifup method ). You could also install Wicd from a build service repository.

Thanks, I did try YaST and it didn't fix anything.

I'll look at wicd and maybe try that.

wicd isn't working either!

This is very unusual. In Wicd, make sure that the correct wireless device is set ( wlan0 ), and deactivate network manager by selecting the Classic ifup mode to manage the network in YaST.

bcooksley wrote:This is very unusual. In Wicd, make sure that the correct wireless device is set ( wlan0 ), and deactivate network manager by selecting the Classic ifup mode to manage the network in YaST.

It's killing me.

I did turn off the network manager but still no good.

Does it work if you try to connect to an unsecured access point?

My knetwork-manager on the other hand, it cannot detect available wireless networks. How do I make it works like in Kubuntu 8.10? Any other related packages I need to have?

I'm using Debian sid + experimental KDE 4.2.1

KNetworkManager is broken. If running "iwlist scan" as root shows networks, try installing wicd, disabling network manager and using that.

bcooksley wrote:Does it work if you try to connect to an unsecured access point?

Nope. :'(

So can you actually see wireless networks?

Does running "iwlist scan" as root (as bcooksley said earlier) list any networks?

Alec wrote:So can you actually see wireless networks?

Does running "iwlist scan" as root (as bcooksley said earlier) list any networks?

Yes, I can see the networks, but it's the connection that doesn't work.

I tried it with wicd - no luck!

I tried turning off authentication on the router - no luck!

What could be going on here?

Have you installed all updates? There have been quite a few Kernel updates since openSUSE 11.1 was released.

bcooksley wrote:Have you installed all updates? There have been quite a few Kernel updates since openSUSE 11.1 was released.

Yep. I chose that as an option during install and then did even more updates through the updater as well.