I reinstalled Opensuse KDE 11.4 because i wanted to move around my partitions a little bit and after reinstalling it I cannot connect to my wireless router.
When I click on network manger and go to wireless connections and scan for a network it doesn't find any networks.

I do have the box for network manager ticked.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!!!!

in Konsole run "hwinfo" - towards the bottom there will be a section for your wireless, please copy and paste here

it will look like:

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64: None 00.0: 1070a WLAN
  [Created at net.124]
  Unique ID: AYEt.QXn1l67RSa1
  Parent ID: 2UT6.4WkeERH1+eB
  SysFS ID: /class/net/wlan0
  SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0
  Hardware Class: network interface
  Model: "WLAN network interface"
  Driver: "rtl8187"
  Driver Modules: "rtl8187"
  Device File: wlan0
  HW Address: 00:15:af:03:9c:0a
  Link detected: no
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #55 (WLAN controller)


74: None 00.0: 1070a WLAN
[Created at net.124]
Unique ID: AYEt.QXn1l67RSa1
Parent ID: y9sn.FS7FPFgc2s0
SysFS ID: /class/net/wlan0
SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/0000:05:00.0/ssb0:0
Hardware Class: network interface
Model: "WLAN network interface"
Driver: "b43"
Driver Modules: "b43"
Device File: wlan0
HW Address: 00:1f:3a:1d:c1:57
Link detected: yes
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #35 (WLAN controller)

There it is Thanks again for the help!!!

don't know much about repairing wireless so .................

1) can you try as a new user? safest first step

2) you can run yast and switch to "traditional" and see if that works

3) unclick wireless and rename the *network* files and folders in ~/.kde4/share/config & ~/.kde4/share/apps then click wireless and see if running a clean config helps --> Not sure these are the proper files to fix your problem

I have tried traditional with no look and I didn't real understand last post so here is what I tried and no I don't no much about it.

linux-p2yz:/home/keith # ~/.kde4/share/config & ~/.kde4/share/app
[1] 16389
bash: /root/.kde4/share/config: No such file or directory
bash: /root/.kde4/share/app: No such file or directory
[1]+ Exit 127 ~/.kde4/share/config
linux-p2yz:/home/keith # ~/.kde4/share/config
bash: /root/.kde4/share/config: No such file or directory
linux-p2yz:/home/keith # ~/.kde4/share/app
bash: /root/.kde4/share/app: No such file or directory
linux-p2yz:/home/keith #

here's an openSuse tutorial

you have a Broadcom based on the "b43" in hwinfo

http://forums.opensuse.org/network-inte ... -work.html
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the ~/.kde4/share/config is the directory name
- you can place it in the Dolphin address bar and see the directory tree
- from the command line you can
--- change to that dir with "cd ~/.kde4/share/config" you will be placed there
--- see whats in the dir with "ls ~/.kde4/share/config", if already in that dir just "ls" will show the files and "ls -l " will show the detail of the files

as root run "/usr/sbin/iwlist scan" do you get results? if yes your wireless works but the ndetworkmanager is a problem

Here is my answer
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

irda0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is dow

I'd focus on the " Network is down"

Is this a laptop? is the wireless light on (somewhere there a light that shows wireless on the laptop is enabled)

it worked before you re-installed?

try running "ifconfig wlan0 up"

if still not working what's the result of "ifconfig -a" just the wlan0 section

google01103 wrote:
try running "ifconfig wlan0 up"

That part gave no display

The second part gave this

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1F:3A:1D:C1:57
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Is this a laptop? is the wireless light on (somewhere there a light that shows wireless on the laptop is enabled)

it worked before you re-installed?

--> I'm pretty clueless regarding wireless, so you'll need to for someone else

Ya it was working and there is no light on this laptop to indicate that. It is telling me to manually start knetworkmanager how do I do that??

type "knetworkmanager"

I sorted it.Thanks for sticking with me. I done a restart and it worked. Can I pick your brain on one last subject, is it possible for me to install Cairo dock on suse kde 11.4 as its not in the repository. Thanks again for being so patient. I'm sure I'll hear from you again.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH - I was goanna suggest a reboot, but good that you're working

It's in the Packman repo (you need/crave/desire this repo)

you could also look at fancy and smooth taskbars

you need to learn about openSuse repo's
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=w ... -xcgniVBKA

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=w ... lIwYzwKOyw