New 13.1 install. No Network?

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Hi there,

I have just installed OpenSuse 13.1 with gnome.

my network driver doesn’t appear to be installed. I went to configure it in the admin yasti, to no avail.

it shows up, so the system recognises it.

I’m new to linux, have I missed something here? I recently installed mint 15 and it found my network card without a problem.

P.S. my graphics driver doesn’t appear to be installed either. Windows are juddery when dragging.

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On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 01:26:02 +0000, Nanogy98 wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have just installed OpenSuse 13.1 with gnome.
>
> my network driver doesn’t appear to be installed. I went to configure
> it in the admin yasti, to no avail.
>
> it shows up, so the system recognises it.
>
> I’m new to linux, have I missed something here? I recently installed
> mint 15 and it found my network card without a problem.
>
> P.S. my graphics driver doesn’t appear to be installed either. Windows
> are juddery when dragging.

It might help if you told us what the hardware is that you’re using. :slight_smile:

Jim

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Im jumping to conclusions here
and might be wrong
I had a problem with network manager.no network down bottom right in kde desktop on opensuse 13.1 64bit kde clean install
had to do what this said on this web page
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/openSUSE/13.1/
bit i did was
CHECKIT:12.3
By default, you use the YaST Network Settings dialog (yast2 network) to activate NetworkManager. If you want to activate NetworkManager, proceed as follows.
The NETWORKMANAGER sysconfig variable in /etc/sysconfig/network/config to activate NetworkManager has been replaced with a systemd network.service alias link, which will be created with the
systemctl enable NetworkManager.servicecommand. It causes the creation of a network.service alias link pointing to the NetworkManager.service, and thus deactivates the /etc/init.d/network script. The command
systemctl -p Id show network.serviceallows to query the currently selected network service.
To enable NetworkManager, use:

  • First, stop the running service:
    systemctl is-active network.service &&
    systemctl stop network.service
  • Enable the NetworkManager service:
    systemctl --force enable NetworkManager.service
  • Start the NetworkManager service (via alias link):
    systemctl start network.service

To disable NetworkManager, use:

  • Stop the running service:
    systemctl is-active network.service &&
    systemctl stop network.service
  • Disable the NetworkManager service:
    systemctl disable NetworkManager.service
  • Start the /etc/init.d/network
    service:systemctl start network.service

To query the currently selected service, use:
systemctl -p Id show network.serviceIt returns “Id=NetworkManager.service” if the NetworkManager service is enabled, otherwise “Id=network.service” and /etc/init.d/network is acting as the network service.

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No, that only applied to 12.3. There was a bug that the installer didn’t correctly activate NetworkManager, you ended up with both NetworkManager and ifup.

Of course this still works in 13.1, but it’s not necessary.

But you do have to enable NetworkManager if you want to use the Networkmanagement applet (this is only a frontend to NetworkManager).
You can also do that in YaST though:
Enter YaST->Network->Network Settings, switch to the “Global Options” tab and activate “User controlled with NetworkManager”. (this did work correctly on 12.3 as well)

On a desktop NetworkManager is not activated by default, only on Laptops… That’s by design.

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thanks for info Networkmanager did not start on my laptop had to run them command to start.had no networks at all in bottom right .anyhow probably not his problem