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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.

Thanks
Gord

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I assume you have a wired ethernet connection available? (There is another option for offline firmware install.)
http://opensuse-guide.org/wlan.php

sudo zypper install b43-fwcutter
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

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…

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/526439-trying-to-setup-wireless-on-laptop?p=2834321#post2834321

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Thank you I will translate those instructions to Gnome and let you know.

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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.

Diagnostic info if further assistance needed…

/usr/sbin/hwinfo --netcard

ip link

dmesg|grep b43
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Hi
The other option to consider is just switching to broadcom-wl?

Else check the systemd service which is run now rather than the script… :wink:


System Information
    Manufacturer: HP
    Product Name: HP 255 G4 Notebook PC

 /sbin/lspci -nnk |grep -A3 Network
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:804a]
    Kernel driver in use: wl
    Kernel modules: bcma, wl

systemctl status pullin-bcm43xx-firmware.service
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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"

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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. :frowning:

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Hi
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?

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Thanks for trying, that did nothing.

DEAL BREAKER FOR ME A LAPTOP IS USELESS WITH OUT WIFI. Windows wins again.

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Hi
Not really, just some operating systems ships with drivers (free/non-free) which isn’t the case with openSUSE…

Look at the broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-kmp from the Third Party repo called packman… PackMan :: Package details for broadcom-wl

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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.

I re installed windows to get that info.

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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.

I re installed windows to get that info.

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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.

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What is the correct way to add the packman repo please?

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https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories#Packman

In particular for openSUSE 42.3…

zypper ar -f -n packman http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/ packman
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Thank You. I will report back tomorrow.

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I find nothing called the ‘Network Manager’

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Ok, report back with

systemctl status network

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.

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These may be useful to you as well…

Configuring Global Network Options:
https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book.opensuse.reference/cha.basicnet.html#sec.basicnet.yast.netcard.global

Network Manager Guide:
https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book.opensuse.reference/cha.nm.html

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That is set and there are no prompts.

And my gnome Network Connections dialog only shows Wired and Network Proxy