Internet not working, KDE, motherboard ethernet

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The Opensuse Leap 42.1 DVD - ‘update install’ option asks me to setup a network card. I change ‘static ip’ to ‘dynamic ip’ and the update downloads work. FYI, the system freeze in opensuse was fixed in an update install.

When I boot to opensuse, the internet doesn’t work. I’ve tried using Yast - Network Setup, no effect. This is the this link to my motherboard. I have a net pci card that can use to test internet (not plugged in).

http://www.msi.com/product/motherboard/970-GAMING.html#hero-overview

Need help

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Hi
Run the following command and post back the output;


/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -A3 Ethernet
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06:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet Controller [1969:e091] (rev 13)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:7693]
Kernel driver in use: alx
Kernel modules: alx

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Hi
OK, so it’s not driver related.

So are you using network manager or wicked?

If you check the entries in /etc/resolv.conf they are showing DNS entries?

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There is a bug in newer kernel for the qualcomm atheros gigabit ethernet controller.
Google around and you will see what I mean.

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/etc/resolv.conf

/etc/resolv.conf file autogenerated by netconfig!

Before you change this file manually, consider to define the

static DNS configuration using the following variables in the

/etc/sysconfig/network/config file:

NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEARCHLIST

NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SERVERS

NETCONFIG_DNS_FORWARDER

or disable DNS configuration updates via netconfig by setting:

NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=‘’

See also the netconfig(8) manual page and other documentation.

Note: Manual change of this file disables netconfig too, but

may get lost when this file contains comments or empty lines

only, the netconfig settings are same with settings in this

file and in case of a “netconfig update -f” call.

Please remove (at least) this line when you modify the file!

nameserver 2001:558:feed::1
nameserver 2001:558:feed::2
nameserver 75.75.75.75

/etc/resolv.conf.netconfig

/etc/resolv.conf file autogenerated by netconfig!

Before you change this file manually, consider to define the

static DNS configuration using the following variables in the

/etc/sysconfig/network/config file:

NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEARCHLIST

NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SERVERS

NETCONFIG_DNS_FORWARDER

or disable DNS configuration updates via netconfig by setting:

NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=‘’

See also the netconfig(8) manual page and other documentation.

Note: Manual change of this file disables netconfig too, but

may get lost when this file contains comments or empty lines

only, the netconfig settings are same with settings in this

file and in case of a “netconfig update -f” call.

Please remove (at least) this line when you modify the file!

search gateway.2wire.net
nameserver 192.168.1.254

There is a bug in newer kernel for the qualcomm atheros gigabit ethernet controller.
Google around and you will see what I mean.

I’m looking. What do I do to fix it?

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So are you using network manager or wicked?

It’s opensuse leap 42.1 standard. So, network manager?

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Hi
So I see it’s using ipv6 and ipv4, are you using both? If only ipv4, then disable ipv6 in YaST Network Settings General page (and maybe even in your router).

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Here is a link I found:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70761
http://cwang.me/blog/2015/05/30/how-to-fix-atheros-a8161-atheros-killer-e2200-ethernet-in-linux/

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There is a bug in newer kernel for the qualcomm atheros gigabit ethernet controller.

Didn’t work.

I plugged in my net pc card and it didn’t work either.

So are you using network manager or wicked?

I found the networking settings for that. I changed from ‘wicked networking’ to ‘network manager’. I plugged in the cable into my network card and it worked. So, I unplugged from my network card into my motherboard internet and it worked! :slight_smile:

It seems ‘wicked networking’ has a bug in it. Now, I have an system update error.

Thanks to all for the help.

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One more thing to add…

When I switched to network manager, I couldn’t find a way to switch back to ‘wicked networking’, nothing in the menu. If it gets fixed, how do I switch back?

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In yast -network settings. Should be able to change there

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With network manager running, I have two ethernet ports, one plugged in. I keep getting popups again and again with the one plugged in. Also, I can’t tell which is which, no names just connection1 and connection2.

I tried switching to ‘wicked network manager’. The network connection now works. Thanks to all.