Just installed 11.3 kde. When running the live cd both wireless and ethernet devices appeared in the network connections manager utility. I even connected to a wireless AP.
I just booted up for the first time and none of these devices are available. There is no network manager icon in the system tray, and when the network manager utility is maually opened the only connection type i can select is vpn.
I know that opensuse should be able to recognize these devices since they were available and working via the live cd, so can anyone help me restore them?
One extra piece of info, is that I am sharing a home directory with a gnome ubuntu install. there were a few minor issues i dealt with initially, but i didnt need to change this user’s UID like I have had to do in the past so that’s good. Each time i open a terminal I get two pieces of output assuming from the bash startup saying something like:
mkdir: cannot create directory /dev/cgroup/cpu/user/[new number each terminal session]
bash: [same path as above] no such file/directory
I highly doubt that these problems are related, but figured I’d post. Also if someone knows the solution to that as well, that would save me a bit of googling.
One extra piece of info, is that I am sharing a home directory with a gnome ubuntu install.
Dho! This wasn’t a good idea, really not a good thing. You shouldn’t share the home folder with 2 differents distros. it is prone to bugs.
there were a few minor issues i dealt with initially, but i didnt need to change this user’s UID like I have had to do in the past so that’s good. Each time i open a terminal I get two pieces of output assuming from the bash startup saying something like:
mkdir: cannot create directory /dev/cgroup/cpu/user/[new number each terminal session]
bash: [same path as above] no such file/directory
I highly doubt that these problems are related, but figured I’d post. Also if someone knows the solution to that as well, that would save me a bit of googling.
Thanks
Pd
Those problems could be related to what I said just above.
I suggest to you to create a new user with a new /home directory if it’s possible and to not share home folder. There are a lot of settings in this folder that might be incompatible for the 2 distros.
I’ve tried that sort of thing in the past (using slackware and redhat). It doesn’t work very well.
I ended up mounting what was my “/home” partition somewhere else ("/home.std" or similar).
Then I allowed “/home/user” directory for each distro. In that directory, I used symlinks to make most of my normal home stuff available. But I kept configuration (such as “.kde”) separate for each distro.
sorry for the delay. the computer is a work computer and i was gone all weekend. so to update, I went and reinstalled opensuse with its own filesystem and home directory. the issue still persists (except for on the live cd/usb, i was able to properly connect then). i have fiddled with random settings and i was able to manually get the network manager to appear in the system tray but it says that it is disabled.
after digging in some other threads i ran a few different commands
ip addr sh listed both ethernet and wireless. the state of ethernet was “up” but the state of wireless was “down”
if i run ifup eth0 it says that dhcp is already running (the network cable is connected but i’m not trying to connect through ethernet)
for wlan0 it says there is no configuration for the device
and it listed a bunch of devices, i saw the ethernet card, and didnt really see the wireless but as stated above i know the system at least recognizes it exists. if you really want to see the output, i can get it but as im not on that computer it would be inconvenient.
As an alternative you can invoke this script. It’s analyzing your system for common config errors and also provide a detailed but filtered file which contains a consolidated summary of your network config of you box. This will help us to help you
