Can't find realtek or mediatek drivers

Just like many others, got a brand new motherboard x870e ASUS and new install of Tumbleweed can’t locate and identify drivers. They are mediatek network and realtek ethernet. Can’t connect to the internet on the new stuff. Two questions: first, what is the best supported lan/wireless/network brand that Linux supports out of the box? Second, what is your suggestion to get some drivers in. It looks like it could be r8169 or r8168 on my old system. Thanks for all your help!!!

So post:

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -iA 3 net
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Realtek is good.

frankie@localhost:~> /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -iA 3 net
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: MEDIATEK Corp. Device [14c3:7927]
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e124]
0c:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8126] (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:88e0]
Kernel modules: r8169
0f:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:43fd] (rev 01)
frankie@localhost:~>

thank you!!

As far as I can see, no drivers available for Wlan up to now, Lan should work ou of the box.

It doesn’t work out of the box. What would be the best way to manually install drivers?

Lan driver is inside the kernel, named r8169

0c:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8126] (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:88e0]
Kernel modules: r8169

Is kernel-firmware-realtek installed?

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Also post
ip a

will check. thank you.

From what I can see from YAST software, kernel-firmware-realtek are installed.

The output from ip a is as follows:
frankie@localhost:~> ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
frankie@localhost:~>

Who do I install manually the LAN drivers? Thanks for your help on so basic of a level.

In the interim, you could try a USB WiFi dongle. The WiFi speed would be limited, based on the speed of the USB port.

thank you!!

Post executed as root:
journalctl -k | grep -Ei 'net|eth|realt|firm|err|r816'

did not work in this new install of opensuse. However, in new install of Fedora Gnome, it was recognized immediately. No bluetooth, but wifi printer recognized. Thank you for your help. Will keep to my old rig a while longer until some new bluetooth drivers are installed. Thanks for everything.