Lost Wireless connection, can't use network manager

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I am currently trying to install VMware Player on suse 12.1. I Did a restart last night and after login I was unable to recognize my wireless network. In the upper right of the screen blue-tooth is enabled, but there is no wireless network listed to connect to and when i click to enter network settings, I see in the ceter of network “Wired” cable unplugged. and no wireless option is listed on the left, only “network proxy”

I’m using gnome on a dell xps laptop and when I look under yast it says that Networkmanager is installed, but I don’t see with the other applications.

Could someone tell me how to find network manager or how I can get back my wireless.

And if I can add a request; many online programmers are sloppy at best and when someone types command prompt code they say some parts and paste others. Please paste the full code from your terminal if I need code to complete an objective. Thank you all in advance and as always…

May the kernel be with you.

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Others may have solutions that have worked for them,

For myself, I generally pop my DVD (or connect to online sources which in your case might require a wired connection) and re-install likely related KDE components, in your case network manager.

I’ve usually found that restores/re-wires the components which might have been disconnected.

If you don’t have access to a wired connection or DVD, you might explore whether the CLI utility wpa_supplicant can get you connected for the time being(assuming you’re connecting to a WPA encrypted AP).

HTH,
TS