Sorry, I am at a complete loss. The whole machine is behaving stragely: br0 keeps changing mac-Addresses, showing up as new machines on the router, and behaving strangely. I have never seen that before. I am currently looking up the two given MAC addresses, brb
sorry, have no idea which device that is. Is it important? If they connect via wlan they must be permitted through wlan security. But i also have more lan devices on the network and i can’t find those two at the moment at all.
Help! 16.0 is a complete mess. NetworkManager seems to create and maintain its own br0. The same one shows up in brctl, but when i change something there (e.g. add wlan0) NM doesn’t recognise the change. nmtui now shows 2 br0 !
Cockpit is enslaved to networkmanager and sometimes just crashes when i change something.
nm-applet can’t ask for root permissions to change the interface settings there, and so isn’t usable. I have to log in as root to do something with it. This is not fun at all! Is Leap 16.0 really leaving RC status tomorrow?
I’m quite frustrated.
Reporting bugs here is pretty useless. Use bugzilla.opensuse.org, credentials are the same as they are here.
“functional switch”??
Posted in the Leap 16 Beta tag … intentional?
Leap 16 is at RC now … might check that out.
When you use brctl (or ip link/ip addr) to change a bridge on the fly, you’re manipulating the kernel networking stack directly, (and it won’t survive a reboot).
NetworkManager only manages the connections that were created by its framework. You should be using nmcli (or the GUI tools) to create/modify the bridge.
The nm-applet doesn’t run as root, it uses polkit for privilege escalation.
You should be prompted for your credentials if your user isn’t already explicitly authorized to perform the action in question.
@deano_ferrari Thanks for the reply!
The nm-applet doesn’t run as root, it uses polkit for privilege escalation.
You should be prompted for your credentials if your user isn’t already explicitly authorized to perform the action in question.
Yes, it should! Sadly, it doesn’t! Policy kit seems not to work after update. I’m used to be asked for root permission, but if it doesn’t, it start getting complicated.
NetworkManager only manages the connections that were created by its framework. You should be using nmcli (or the GUI tools) to create/modify the bridge.
As I said earlier in the first post, nm-applet doesn’t let me add a wifi device. It just doesn’t show on the addable devices list! There is so much Catch-22 here…
But thanks for the tip!!
nmcli con add type bridge-slave ifname wlan0 master br0
did the trick!
… of adding wlan0 to the bridge in NM. “ip a” shows the bridge and its comonents. But sadly, the original problem remains unchanged: Wifi clients do not successfully connect to the hostapd as long as firewalld is active. No traffic flows. Please consult the original post for details. Does anyone else share the problems?
Hello again
I have just found out by accident firewalld does let hostapd clients connect, but only in “trusted” zone. All other zones I tested block all traffic, including dhcp (the clients don’t get an IP address. Is there anyone who can help with this problem?