Hello dear community,
in the past I had installed OpenSuse Tumbleweed Gnome on a Surface 3 Pro and had some issues in the beginning with the WI-FI, but after some restarts those issues somehow went away.
Now several days ago I installed OpenSuse Tumbleweed Gnome on my desktop PC and had some issues again.
During the installation I configured the WI-FI/WLAN connection, the router was quickly found by the WLAN module, an Intel AX210, and when I reached the desktop after the installtion finished, the SSID was shown with the interface name as a prefix, like wlp9s0 FritzBox xxxx…
But upon reaching the desktop after installation, the WI-FI Symbol in the upper right corner kept disappearing and appearing again all the time.
The same disappearing and appearing happend with the WI-FI navigation item on the left when I opened Gnome Settings.
I managed, during the disappearing and appearing, to remove the network from the “Saved Networks” in the setting, but the issue persisted.
Somewhere I read that switch into Ctrl+Alt+F5 and back to Ctrl+Alt+F2 could help, but it did not help.
When I was in tty5, I noticed some text loop regarding “iwlwifi”. I appended those, sorry that they are a bit blurry, the loop was a bit too fast for my camera. (Is there maybe another way to take screenshots of tty’s?)
So it indicates, it was just a firmware error?
I thought maybe a dist-upgrade could help.
So I searched how I could make USB-Tehthering work:
Adding a “#” at beginning of the line:
blacklist rndis_host
in:
/lib/modprobe.d/50-blacklist-rndis.conf
and running:
sudo modprobe rndis_host
helped.
But still after the upgrade the WI-FI did not seem to work properly.
A popup where I should enter the WI-FI password appeared repeatingly and also a popup where I should enter the Administrator password, but this less often.
Then I removed the WI-Fi entry in “Saved Networks” in Settings again, deactivated the WI-FI in the upper right corner and rebooted the PC.
After reboot I could activate the WI-FI and enter the password normally and the internet over the WI-Fi-Module worked for the first time.
So my question for this post here would be:
Where should I look to collect all those errors, so those might be fixed and future new users do not need to have the same struggles?