Hey! so recently i started to use open suse, and my wifi dosent seem to connect to my home router. I’ve been having to use my phone hotspot to get wifi in my room. my sister has a simlar laptop to me but it run ion windows and it dosent seem to have the issue that mine has. any help is greatly apprecatied!
Hi there. To make sure we’re on the same page: your laptop’s Wi-Fi adapter is working and it can connect to your phone’s hotspot, but it consistently fails when you try to connect it to your main home Wi-Fi. Is that correct?
The fact that a Windows machine works fine suggests the issue is likely with the software on your laptop (the driver or a network setting) rather than the network itself. Let’s gather some data to see what’s happening.
Before you even try to connect, you can scan for all available networks and see how your laptop perceives them. This will show us the signal strength and other important details.
Please run this command in a terminal and share the output. Look for the line corresponding to your home network:
nmcli dev wifi list
This will give us a baseline of the connection quality from your laptop’s point of view.
While the scan is helpful, another critical piece of information we need, is the exact model of your Wi-Fi card.
Please run this second command and paste the output as well:
inxi -N
With the output from these two commands, we should have a better picture of what could be happening.
okay so i did all of that, so what so i do now?
Great, as I wrote in my initial response, please share the output of those commands here.
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When asking for output, please mention susepaste.
like
nmcli dev wifi list | susepaste
or
inxi -N | susepaste
Doing so will return a URL for paste.opensuse.org, post that here.
Other option is to copy the output, and paste it here as pre-formatted text ( </> ).
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And please use the -e option (see man susepaste) else the data will be removed in half an hour, which is far to short to be of use in these forums.
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