Hi everyone,

Like the rest I was excited about 11.0 and installed it over the weekend over my 10.3 install. The install went fine, the system boots and runs fine except that every time I boot I have to open a terminal su to root and issue the rcnetwork restart command, then my wireless works fine. It doesn't see or connect to my router until I re-start the network. My system is as follows:

HP 9700 Laptop
2.5 dual core 64 bit cpu
4 GB ram
512 MB Nvidia 8600 video card
intel 4965 agn wireless card
realtek hd audio sound card
64bit OpenSuSe 11.0

I stayed with KDE 3.5x as 4.0 is still unusable to me ...For the wireless card settings, I have set it to activate on boot and I'm using the traditional method with ifup and I've even gone so far as to remove network manager thinking that might have something to do with it, still no joy. Any suggestions or ideas ??

My Acer laptop has the INPROCOMM IPN2220 Wireless LAN Adaptor, and I used ndiswrapper to install the XP drivers, originally under Suse 10.0. I've been using networkmanager, and this worked fine until Suse 10.3, when it stopped automatically connecting to my network on boot. I had to open a terminal and dobefore it would connect.

I upgraded from 10.3 to 11.0, and the new networkmanager is much better, and includes a much simpler tool for roaming which seems to work fine. I can now move between networks I user regularly without having to do anything. I use KDE 4 and installed the KNetworkManager gui to run it.

You need to make sure you have network manager enabled when you set-up the wireless network card, and then you right click on the new networkmanager icon, and select "New connection" where you can set up both wireless and wired connections and make them automatic on detection.

Thanks for the reply but after almost 2 weeks of getting it to work once then if fails then trying to get the audio working I gave up my long-time favorite distro, I have installed sabayon and everything and I do mean everything audio, nvidia video, all codecs everything worked right outta the box ... maybe I'll try again with 11.1 but for now I have left Opensuse behind ...