17/04/2009

Wireless trouble and more

After some major update my wireless stopped working on Tisiphone (Samsung R55 Cavan, Intel 3945 chipset). Not good. wlan0 didn't even show up in the ifconfig output. dmesg showed some startup problems with the iwl3945 kernel module.
The solution was to remove the compat-wireless drivers, you don't need them for the Intel 3945 chip (Some other update tried to sneak them in again, so beware!)
On the way (rebooting at least once without a working X server), I found that I had both a default and a pae kernel, which was interesting (to put it mildly), the latter had accompanied the uvcvideo-kmp-default module. No idea why.
To top everything off, the uvcvideo, wacom and nvidia modules refused to work with each other's preferred kernel version, and I wondered how my system had been running before and what my webcam was doing with uvcvideo when I had championed gspca previously. No matter, I changed the driver to gspca-kmp-default (not in the default repos, search software.opensuse.com for it).
So finally I can film myself using the Wacom tablet with the webcam and stream that over wireless all at once - I'm so hip I can't see over my pelvis.

2 comments:

DaWuzzzz said...

Seems openSuSE updates are to be avoided at times:
Yesterday I wanted to boot my openSuSE 11 on medea after a significant update session - booting halted, even with failsafe. Last chance was to boot a Knoppix DVD - fsck wasn't able to repair the file system but found errors, the harddive seems to be ok. Finally, checking via Gparted one could see that the whole system partition was out of free space with no chance to repair the file system.
What the fuck is that?

avocadohead said...

Language!