The only problem now is that wicked doesn’t reliably connect to wifi upon a reboot. As long as the system is up and running it stays stable. I tried switching to NM but then it goes back to crashing just like before even with the MB eth setup.
I did some research on Wicked and it seems it was only intended to be used for hard wired connections for servers and desktops. Even though it has support for wifi it seems it wasn’t a high priority and may have bugs. For wifi and especially for laptops that may need to be reconnected to various wifi networks it seems NM is recommended. Now I just have to figure out why it crashes using NM. It also seems you can’t kill Wicked, only disable it.
Dave
Ok, made some headway on this also… I got it working with the plasma NWM instead of Yast without crashing. Turns out neither Yast or NM like seeing TWO wireless adaptors installed at the same time. Even if you leave either one unconfigured it will still crash. Thats weird because Ubuntu had no problem with it and MacOS is fine with it and you can even switch between the 2 at will. Oh well…
Dave
By two you mean a wifi and a nic?? That should be no problem at all plenty of machines have that.
Mine had the MB eth, a pci wifi and a usb wifi. If I left both wifi’s physically installed it crashes. After more experimenting it turns out its the usb wifi that causes the crash. Must not have a good driver for it. With the pci wifi its rock solid. The MacOS and Ubuntu didn’t have a problem of them being hooked up as long as you only try and use one at a time. I prefer the USB unit I have as it always gets 100% signal and the pci varies a lot. I’ll see if I can find a driver for it. My other PC also has 2 wifi adapters and one is also USB.
Dave
What is the perceived advantage for 2 wifi adapters?? I suspect that would take very special setup I have no idea where I’d begin. It is pretty common to have multiple nics to support complex networks but never saw multiple wifi. 
My Amiga 4000T doesn’t support WPA2 so I have a 2nd router I use as a bridge so I can have a second less secure network running when I play with the old Amiga and I’ve also experimented with using the pci wifi cards as bridges so I don’t have to mess with the 2nd router. It’s kinda fun having an early 90’s computer on wifi anyways …
Dave