No wireless card in Yast KDE firewall configuration GUI

I’m running KDE Plasma 5 on tumbleweed.

My laptop has an internal wired and wireless interface. The wired interface comes up in the firewall configuration GUI in Yast, but the wireless interface (which is active and I use most of the time) is not listed, and there doesn’t seem to be an option in the GUI to add it.

By the way, when I first installed tumbleweed it didn’t pick up the wireless card. I had to manually install the driver with:

**#** /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware


#ifconfig -a

gives:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback   
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1  
          RX bytes:1491 (1.4 Kb)  TX bytes:1491 (1.4 Kb)

p6p1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B8:AC:6F:C9:AF:C7   
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000  
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:18  

wlp2s0b1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr C0:F8:DA:15:07:52   
          inet addr:128.1.1.58  Bcast:128.1.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::e0e1:df83:57a7:b2af/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:194220 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:132343 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000  
          RX bytes:253712036 (241.9 Mb)  TX bytes:15047276 (14.3 Mb)

I’m using NetworkManager to manage my connections.

Is there any way of manually adding the wireless card into the firewall configuration?

By default,
SUSEFW2 (which can be managed by the YAST firewall module) does not list any interfaces in its zones.
When this happens, then firewall rules apply to all interfaces.

This also means that if you configure specific interfaces, then rules will apply only to those interfaces.

Hmmmm…
I’ve noticed this concept in a number of documentation but for some reason I don’t see it in the Community documentation. In any case, more information about SUSEFW2 can be found in the community docs…
https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/security/html/book.security/cha.security.firewall.html

TSU

Great! I hadn’t appreciated that.

Thanks for your help TSU.