Recent upgrade broke wifi

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Hi all,
recent tumbleweed upgrade ( 20230616) broke wifi - system does not recognize the card anymore;
systemctl status network gives the below
currently tethering on phone
any help appreciated

● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-06-17 13:04:44 EDT; 10min ago
Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)
Main PID: 1179 (NetworkManager)
Tasks: 5 (limit: 4915)
CPU: 378ms
CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
└─1179 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon

Jun 17 13:04:50 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1179]: [1687021490.7109] device (virbr0): state change: ip-config → ip-check (reason ‘none’, sys-iface-state: ‘external’)
Jun 17 13:04:50 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1179]: [1687021490.7115] device (virbr0): state change: ip-check → secondaries (reason ‘none’, sys-iface-state: ‘external’)
Jun 17 13:04:50 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1179]: [1687021490.7116] device (virbr0): state change: secondaries → activated (reason ‘none’, sys-iface-state: ‘external’)
Jun 17 13:04:50 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1179]: [1687021490.7117] policy: set-hostname: set hostname to ‘localhost.localdomain’ (no hostname found)
Jun 17 13:04:50 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1179]: [1687021490.7118] device (virbr0): Activation: successful, device activated.
Jun 17 13:04:53 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1179]: [1687021493.5740] agent-manager: agent[754b05b14a23ad6a,:1.35/org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement/1000]: agent registered
Jun 17 13:04:55 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1179]: [1687021495.3509] manager: (D4:3A:2C:98:68:F0): new Bluetooth device (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/5)
Jun 17 13:04:55 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1179]: [1687021495.3510] device (D4:3A:2C:98:68:F0): state change: unmanaged → unavailable (reason ‘managed’, sys-iface-state>
Jun 17 13:04:55 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1179]: [1687021495.3514] device (D4:3A:2C:98:68:F0): state change: unavailable → disconnected (reason ‘none’, sys-iface-state>
Jun 17 13:05:00 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1179]: [1687021500.7375] audit: op=“statistics” interface=“enp4s0f3u2u4” ifindex=3 args=“2000” pid=2104 uid=1000 result="succe>
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If you have Broadcom or Realtek Wifi you have to get the drivers outside the upgrade path.

Broadcom and Realtek wifi code are not FOSS and cannot be distributed with OpenSUSE but Sauerland does have them for 15.5.

They are in available for 15.5 here:

https://mirrorcache-us.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Sauerland:/hardware/openSUSE_Leap_15.5/x86_64/

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Post:
/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net

If Broadcom or rtl8169 maybe Packman is the better way.

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thanks,
the issue got resolved;
a couple of reboots, and all is back to normal
not sure what the issue was