It seems that every linux distro I try works great during the LiveCD (in my case, USB stick) but after installation on my hard drive, some kind of distro-specific problem occurs… I am not using a virtual machine, I want to install a solid linux distro onto my Alienware M14x as the primary operating system.
So this is about openSUSE 13.1, I used the Live KDE version for a few days and everything worked fine. After I install to my hard drive (with a little difficulty about “allocating space” or something), it doesn’t recognize that I have any network interfaces at all… so after looking around the internet and my computer, i open network settings inside the control panel and it turns out YAST has no control over the network (as it showed in a warning dialog), and gave some instructions I didn’t understand… so i researched that too, and after switching it to “ifup” and rebooting, it still doesn’t work… so I look in the tray and clicked the “network management” icon, it says “network manager isnt running, please start it” (or something)… so I did more research to figure out how to start “network manager”… so i opened a terminal and got root access (i needed to be root for some reason) and typed “service NetworkManager start” and got the network manager to start, and only my ethernet port showed up. I still have no idea how to enable my wireless card… when I open the “manage connection”, all of the tabs are grayed out… except VPN, and Wired is now available after starting networkManager. How do I make my wireless work again?
I don’t want this OS to be a constant project like Mageia was… with constant posting of log files, executing shell commands, editing config files and other nonsense. I just want stuff to work, out of the box.
