Hi
I’ve just installed leap 42.3 and I’m having a few issues with starting the network service on boot with a RTL8188SU usb card. It starts fine if I use wicked. However, to use the nm-applet I always have to reconfigure the network in yast. Any ideas? I also have to launch nm-applet manually.
First, which desktop?
… but once you set the system network to be managed by Network Manager in Yast, you then do no further setup of networks in Yast. Subsequent setups are done in Network Manager through the applet (that should be) on the panel. Depending on which desktop, we might be able to tell you how to add it to the panel.
As for having the network start at boot with Network Manager, when you edit a connection in Network Manager, you will find in the dialogues a checkbox to Automatically Connect and a checkbox for “All Users may connect …” You need to check both of these, and since this then makes the connection a system-wide one, you will be asked for the root password to save the changes.
Hi
Yes all those steps were done. My desktop is a home build one using a Gigabyte Z68MA-D2H-B3 motherboard. output of lshw -short below. I think the issue is related to the wireless usb card, which uses the r8712u module. This isn’t being loaded on boot but can be manually modprobed.
system Z68MA-D2H-B3
/0 bus Z68MA-D2H-B3
/0/0 memory 128KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor Intel(R) Core™ i5-2500K CP
/0/4/a memory 64KiB L1 cache
/0/4/b memory 6MiB L2 cache
/0/17 memory 16GiB System Memory
/0/17/0 memory 4GiB DIMMProject-Id-Version:
/0/17/1 memory 4GiB DIMMProject-Id-Version:
/0/17/2 memory 4GiB DIMMProject-Id-Version:
/0/17/3 memory 4GiB DIMMProject-Id-Version:
/0/100 bridge 2nd Generation Core Processor
/0/100/2 display 2nd Generation Core Processor
/0/100/16 communication 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset
/0/100/1a bus 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset
/0/100/1a/1 usb1 bus EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1a/1/1 bus Integrated Rate Matching Hub
/0/100/1a/1/1/2 input USB Multimedia Keyboard
/0/100/1b multimedia 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset
/0/100/1c bridge 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset
/0/100/1c.6 bridge 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset
/0/100/1c.6/0 enp2s0 network RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express
/0/100/1c.7 bridge 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset
/0/100/1c.7/0 bus EJ168 USB 3.0 Host Controller
/0/100/1c.7/0/0 usb3 bus xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1c.7/0/0/1 input USB Optical Mouse
/0/100/1c.7/0/0/2 multimedia Webcam C270
/0/100/1c.7/0/1 usb4 bus xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d bus 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset
/0/100/1d/1 usb2 bus EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d/1/1 bus Integrated Rate Matching Hub
/0/100/1d/1/1/1 generic 11n USB Adapter
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge Z68 Express Chipset Family LP
/0/100/1f.2 storage 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset
/0/100/1f.3 bus 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset
/0/100/1f.5 storage 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset
/0/1 scsi0 storage
/0/1/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 1TB WDC WD1002FAEX-0
/0/1/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 350MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 930GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.0.0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 450MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0 /dev/cdrom disk iHAS124 B
/0/2 scsi1 storage
/0/2/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk 750GB SAMSUNG HD753LJ
/0/2/0.0.0/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 488GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/2/0.0.0/2 /dev/sdb2 volume 210GiB EXT4 volume
/0/2/0.1.0 /dev/sdc disk 750GB SAMSUNG HD753LJ
/0/2/0.1.0/1 /dev/sdc1 volume 454GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/2/0.1.0/2 /dev/sdc2 volume 244GiB Extended partition
/0/2/0.1.0/2/5 /dev/sdc5 volume 15GiB Linux swap / Solaris pa
/0/2/0.1.0/2/6 /dev/sdc6 volume 228GiB Linux filesystem parti
/1 wlx0014d1d2d5c0 network Wireless interface
Was referring to the desktop environment you’re using. KDE, Gnome, Xfce, etc. (as opposed to your desktop hardware.)
I really doubt that you’ve enabled Network Manager to manage your networking.
YaST > System > Network Settings > Global Tab
Top dropdown,
You need to change to “Network Manager Service”
Otherwise,
You’re still using Wicked which can only remember one network connection setting at a time.
TSU
[QUOTE=tannington;2836976]Was referring to the desktop environment you’re using. KDE, Gnome, Xfce, etc. (as opposed to your desktop hardware.)/QU
Ah apologies, it’s Gnome
Don’t doubt, it was done
Based on your comment about the wireless driver…
I think the issue is related to the wireless usb card, which uses the r8712u module. This isn’t being loaded on boot but can be manually modprobed.
…it’s not a NetworkManager issue. In any case you can verify that all is well with NM using…
sudo systemctl status NetworkManager
To get a handle on what is happening with the driver at boot run
dmesg|egrep "r8712u|firmware"