With an AMD A10-8700P Radeon R6, Compute Cores 4C+6G 1.80GHz. with Installed RAM 12.0 GB (11.4 GB usable)
First let me say that I have to congratulate openSuSe for being the ONLY linux distro that installed from the DVD from boot to reboot without a hitch on this laptop. Most of them need a ‘nomodeset’ added to the grub boot loader to even get a gui to install. NOT SuSE…NICE JOB.
Now to a small glitch I installed by broadcom bmc43xx-firmware as needed for this laptop, but in the YaST Network Settings I get the following "WARNING: Network is currently handled by network manager or completely disabled. YaST is unable to configure some options"
I have looked around and unable to see how to turn this on. Guidance is appreciated, and yes I have read the sticky’s relating to wifi.
Now, not to complicate things, but there appears to be a bug causing the b43 module to try and load firmware from initrd which then results in a error when not able to do so. Unloading and loading the b43 module manully fixes that, but to automate it for now please refer to my workaround…
The desktop environment is not relevant here. All terminal commands. It’s just a matter of making sure that you have the firmware installed. If everything is working, wlan0 should be present.
All is there but no wireless. I still get the following "WARNING: Network is currently handled by network manager or completely disabled. YaST is unable to configure some options"
What really makes me scratch my head is that this simple task of connecting wireless to the internet is a no brainer on the other distro’s, pick your network, add your password. Yet SuSE did what none of the other distro’s could do, install off the DVD without and complications.
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Check your wifi button is working Fn+F12(?) as in cycle through it, if that doesn’t work also install rfkill and check the output from the rfkill command since the driver is loaded it might all be soft blocked since you have bluetooth as well?
The actual hardware info is BCM41142 802.11 bgm wifi M.2 Adapter using BCMWL63A driver. Not sure how any of those numbers line up with the link you gave me.
Then there is still the problem of “**WARNING: Network is currently handled by network manager or completely disabled. YaST is unable to configure some options” . **
YaST controlling the show.
The actual hardware info is BCM41142 802.11 bgm wifi M.2 Adapter using BCMWL63A driver. Not sure how any of those numbers line up with the link you gave me.
Then there is still the problem of “**WARNING: Network is currently handled by network manager or completely disabled. YaST is unable to configure some options” . **
YaST controlling the show.
It’s the chipset details that is relevant here, and your posted output shows 14e4:4365 which is supported by the proprietary broadcom wl driver. The packman repo contains these packages, so make sure you’re subscribed to that and do
zypper in broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-default
then reboot.
Then there is still the problem of "WARNING: Network is currently handled by network manager or completely disabled. YaST is unable to configure some options" .
If you’re using NetworkManager there is no need to configure the device via YaST.
YaST > System > Network Settings > Global Options, here you can set NetworkManager or wicked. I’d recommend that you explicitly set NetworkManager. Follow the prompts given.