11.1 upgrade for 11.0 failure

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I am by no means a Linux guru. A friend introduced me to 11.0 about 12 months ago and I loved the desktop so I installed and used it ever since. My setup is pretty standard - pretty much out of the box 11.0.

Yesterday I tried to install 11.1 using the upgrade route here: Upgrade - openSUSE

I’m surprised how much it changed my system. Sound and compiz are gone but those are secondary. The big problem is no internet.

  • Yast takes over 2 minutes to open after I enter the password
  • “Network settings” hangs. It will open the window but not fill in any information. Then just sits there forever.
  • Running “ip addr” tells me my IP is 192.168.0.100 and it should be 192.168.0.200 as it was before the upgrade.
    Since I can’t open network settings, I cannot change it.

One good thing is that I have local network access so I know it can access my card correctly.

My questions are:
Yast taking so long to open is a big problem. Any ideas on why?
Why would network settings hang like that? where are its settings stored?
How can I manually set the IP address in a config file somewhere?

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It could be either a hardware or configuration related problem. If you have /home on a separate partition, my experience has been: it’s best to do a fresh install.
Otherwise either backup /home and do a fresh install with a separate /home partition or download the network install image and use it do do the upgrade rather than upgrad a running system.

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Normally I’ve had good luck with upgrades - but something fundamental seems to have changed late in the 11.0 process, and I had to “new install” 11.1 rather than upgrade. I did have a separate /home partition so I didn’t format that and it kept my desktop settings. About 11.1, I use KDE3 (haven’t been able to figure out KDE4), and that’s harder to find during the install of 11.1, and you have to make sure and check “manual configure” - and make settings as necessary - maybe this would help with the network.