on 13.2 networkmanager doesn't show the active wireless connection

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I was cable connected and I connected also with a wireless connection, networkmanager say me that wlan0 is connected but doesn’t show the active connection when I click on it in system tray, the active connection section is empty, , I have to detach cable to disconnect and then to reattach cable to automatically reconnect, then networkmanager shows both active connections, is it a bug or a feature?? :slight_smile:

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I have no idea, but what struck meas strange is you mentioning wlan0. That device name is no longer used, at least since openSUSE 13.1.

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The device name should not be changed when you upgrade, and it is perfectly possible to change it to anything you like, even wlan0.
And in fact on my system it is still called wlan0:

wolfi@amiga:~/Desktop> cat /etc/os-release 
NAME=openSUSE
VERSION="13.2 (Harlequin)"
VERSION_ID="13.2"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64)"
ID=opensuse
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://opensuse.org/"
ID_LIKE="suse"
wolfi@amiga:~/Desktop> /sbin/ifconfig 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 00:11:D8:8D:95:52  
          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 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:17 

lo        Link encap:Lokale Schleife  
          inet Adresse:127.0.0.1  Maske:255.0.0.0
          inet6 Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0 
          RX bytes:3770 (3.6 Kb)  TX bytes:3770 (3.6 Kb)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 00:23:CD:BC:51:21  
          inet Adresse:10.0.0.5  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Maske:255.0.0.0
          inet6 Adresse: fe80::223:cdff:febc:5121/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7861 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5830 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 
          RX bytes:4315039 (4.1 Mb)  TX bytes:1210389 (1.1 Mb)

plasma-nm is working fine here though, and correctly showing the active connection:
http://wstaw.org/m/2015/01/12/nm.png

So if it’s not working for you, it’s probably a bug or misconfiguration.
Check that “Show sections” (“Abschnitte anzeigen”) is activated in the configuration dialog.

Also, my connection is setup as system connection (“Allow other users to connect” or similar). Maybe this makes a difference?