Network Manager Issues with 15.5

English Network/Internet
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Greetings All:

Since upgrading to SUSE 15.5, I’ve encountered a couple of NetworkManager issues.

The first issue was WiFi disconnecting and connecting every second.
This ONLY occurred using NetworkMananger, and not if I connected using ‘Wicked’.
I fixed this by changing the lease time on the Router. It was set to ‘forever’.
Setting it to 99 weeks appears to have made NetworkManager happy.
This setting has been in this router for at LEAST 2 years.
The prior SUSE releases on this machine (15.4/15.3) had no issues with this setting.
Not being a network expert, I’m not sure if this was a bad router setting or an issue with NM.

The other issue, which has not yet been solved is with VPN.
In 15.4, to add a VPN:
Connection settings-> click on ‘+’ and Import VPN Connection.
After this, this VPN was ALWAYS available in the NETWORKS panel.

In 15.5, the connection WILL show up in the panel. However, after a reboot,
the connection no longer is present, and the import action must be repeated.
Is there some other action needed to get a permanent VPN connection?

The 15.5 install was a clean build on a Lenovo T430s laptop.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx.

Richard Rosa

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That seems to be a NetworkManager problem, if you want to take this further I suggest using:

On you VPN not being saved, when you add the connection are you asked for root credentials?

You can also try:

sudo nmcli connection import type openvpn file <filename.ovpn>

After that “nmcli connection show” should show the new connection.