[olug] Getting wireless running

[Thomas D. Williamson]

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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