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I have installed both Windows and SUSE Linux (11.4) on my Dell Inspiron 14r laptop. Both are working properly.

I am facing one strange problem.

I went to my Linux OS wifi was working fine and I pressed fn+f2 in-order to disable wifi.
Wifi got disable successfully but when I again pressed fn+f2 it is not enabling wifi. I can see wifi disabled. Instead of that bluetooth icon got enable.

Then I switched to Windows and again pressed fn+f2 and wifi got enabled. Then I switched to linux OS and I can see my wifi enabled. Again I pressed fn+f2 and it got disabled and I'm not able to enable it by pressing fn+f2 again.

How can I enable wifi on SUSE (11.4)?

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ifconfig wlan0 up

Replace wlan0 with your wireless device. To see yours, you can type in ifconfig -a

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i tried this but still not working. ifconfig -a result shows eth0,lo and wlan0 i executed ifconfig waln0 up but no effect. any idea? – Suri Apr 14 '12 at 16:53
in network manager icon on system tray enable wireless i unchecked and disabled. – Suri Apr 15 '12 at 5:42

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