Hi guys, I was testing openSUSE KDE edition in a live session and I stumbled into these two issues. I{d normally just report them on bugzilla, but for some reason it won’t let me log in (it keeps asking me to verify my email address).
If I log out and log back in my wireless network dissappears from the list of available wireless networks. disabling and reenabling wireless conections in the network manager makes it appear again.
In the network manager, disabling wireless and networking in that order makes it impossible to reenable wireless.
The last problem looks a lot like bug # 801206, but I thought it was worth bringing up.
On 02/05/2013 02:06 PM, Pantabulosin wrote:
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> Hi guys, I was testing openSUSE KDE edition in a live session and I
> stumbled into these two issues. I{d normally just report them on
> bugzilla, but for some reason it won’t let me log in (it keeps asking me
> to verify my email address).
>
>
>
> - If I log out and log back in my wireless network dissappears from
> the list of available wireless networks. disabling and reenabling
> wireless conections in the network manager makes it appear again.
> - In the network manager, disabling wireless and networking in that
> order makes it impossible to reenable wireless.
Which openSUSE KDE version??? I would think people might understand that this
is important information without us having to continually ask for it.
If the version is 12.2, this is a known problem that has been fixed in the real
systems. The distribution media are almost never remastered - you must do
updates to get the fixes.
Larry already describes the issue, and the solution. IIRC you can work around it by declaring the wireless connection a System Connection. You will be asked for the root password, but networking should work after this.
I assume this “Live” means is running off a LiveCD, so unless writable media is mounted settings cannot be saved and persisted between boots (or create your own custom LiveCD).
To the OP,
Network Manager runs as a Desktop app, so normally only runs when you login. If you logout and log back in, NM will restart so unless you made the connection “system” your network connections will also be re-made when you login.
Also, think of wireless networking as a subset built on top of networking as a whole so if you disable networking everything built on top of it including wireless will also be disabled. Plain networking does not mean wired only networking.