I did an in-place zypper dup from 11.4 to 12.1, and it would appear that I lost my network manager configurations - all I have left is the auto eth0.
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:26:03 +0000, staffantj wrote:
> I did an in-place zypper dup from 11.4 to 12.1, and it would appear that
> I lost my network manager configurations - all I have left is the auto
> eth0.
You might ask a question about this in the networking forum, including
information about what hardware is in the system.
Jim
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I wondered whether that would happen.
With 11.4, configurations were usually kept by the client (either KDE client or gnome client). With the new version of NetworkManager, the configurations seem to all be kept in “/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections”.
If you had set a connection to be shared with all users (possible only with the gnome client), that would be in the right place. I don’t know whether it would have been compatible with the new version.
Incidently, a freshly installed system does not even have “Auth eth0”. Instead, it has “Wired connection 1” which has no configuration file, so is presumably built into the software.
You are probably going to have to configure your connections all over again. And it will probably require the root password to do so.
I also had to do that, and root password was required.
After the “zypper dup” from a fully updated standard 11.4 to 12.1, KDE Settings were in a mess and crashing. Desktop system tray and Network Manager for wireless connection was broken. I fixed KDE by deleting the hidden .kde4 file in /home (done by booting from another system partition and mounting the 12.1 partition there). I was then able to reconfigure KDE Settings including NM without crashes.
On a new system, I normally go to a virtual console with CTRL-ALT-F1 (while logged out of GUI), and then:
mkdir OLD
mv .??* OLD
cd OLD
ls -a
That moves the settings out of the way. Then I move a few back ( “.profile”, “.ssh”, “.gnupg” for example).
That way I have none of the settings for the desktop environment. So I can login as if a new user. That allows me to experience what it is supposed to look like. And if I decide that I prefer to keep the old settings, I can just move everything back. Or, if I prefer the new appearance, I just nuke that OLD directory.
That was a tad off topic. We now return to netmanager discussion.
Yes, will do similar if/when I zypper dup my main 11.4 system. I should have mentioned it was on my testing partition. 
BTW, network manager seems to work very well for wireless, executes on restart, and Wallet isn’t mandatory.