I’m a Mint user since a few months (EndOf10) and quite happy with it. I’m still an absolute Linux beginner though.
Reading a lot about OpenSuse, I decided to give Leap 16 a shot. I installed that one on an external SSD so that I can still keep my Mint system untouched.
I solved the black screen problem with nomodeset. But now I got another problem but I still don’t want to give up:
I can not connect to my Wifi. Any time, I open the Wifi settings, the CPU fan is going crazy and nothing happens for about 10 to 20 seconds.
After entering the WPA2 personal password it still wouldn’t connect. Again, after a lot of time at the highest possible RPMs for the CPU cooler, it says that it can’t connect and will be disabled.
I found this threat:
I have somehow the same problem but couldn’t solve it by disabling the password safe.
I also tried to reboot every now and then after changing the settings back and forth. Nothing helped!
My system is:
AMD 3900X
32 GiB RAM
NVIDIA GTX 3060
ASUS Wifi Stick
Leap 16, KDE, installed the offline version on an external drive (128 GiB) used the partition presets, only changed the swap size to 34 GiB (I read that it should have 2 GiB more then RAM).
Please post it complete and not what your mean, f. e.:
stephan@linux64:~/git/osc/home:Sauerland> lsusb
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 0bda:8153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0bda:0411 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 05e3:0626 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 007: ID 0e8d:1887 MediaTek Inc. Slim Portable DVD Writer
Bus 003 Device 008: ID 0c4b:0501 Reiner SCT Kartensysteme GmbH cyberJack RFID comfort dual interface smartcard reader
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0bda:5411 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5411 Hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 14cd:125d Super Top Mass Storage Device
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 1ea7:0064 SHARKOON Technologies GmbH 2.4GHz Wireless rechargeable vertical mouse [More&Better]
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046a:b090 CHERRY Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c46:64ab WaveRider Communications, Inc. USB Live camera
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
stephan@linux64:~/git/osc/home:Sauerland>
With the whole commandline and the line followed.
Use also Code-Tags:
You can get an Internet connection by sharing your phone connection by tethering.
If you don’t know how to do this, you can easily find a guide on the Internet.
I mean, I think the problem is the password manager. It keeps asking about die Wi-Fi PW repeatedly. When I close the PW manager, while starting Wi-Fi settings it says that it must also start the PW manager again.
Also the hardware was recognized by the system and all Wi-Fi networks around here are in the connectivity-list. It just doesn’t want to connect somehow.
I double checked the PW several times - it’s correct.
I also tried to connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot on my phone. That didn’t work eighter.
My Wi-Fi stick works flawlessly in Mint 22.2, Zorin 18 and Ubuntu 24.04 (the latter two also installed on an external SSD for trial) out of the box - I tried all of them. Maybe the Debian based distros can handle the thing better. It’s also brand new - I bought it for Mint as my trusted old adapter didn’t work with any Debian-based distro.
I probably will stick to Mint for the moment since this system works for me (never change a running system) and my wife uses Zorin which is quite similar.
Without nomodeset, you will have a black screen. So what is your goal?
Btw, this command is wrong, see some comments further. It needs to be --del-option