I just setup a minipc aimed to be used as a home server with Leap 15.4. It has both ethernet and wifi interface. The network setup uses wicked service.
The goals are:
- Use static ip for the ethernet to connect to the internet (wire connection to my router).
- Turn off its wifi completely but get it ready when I need it to connect wirelessly.
I did (in Yast2-network settings repeatedly):
1). set up the static ip for eth0
2). DHCP for wifi connection (wlan0), including choosing SSID and filling in the password.
3). Tried setting up the wlan0 network card boot up mode either to manually or never.
4). In ‘route’ tab added the gateway ip (my router) (ticking default) and chose ‘eth0’ as destination.
The problem starts when I reboot since it can not even connect to the router.
‘ip addr’ showed the static ip I setup, but ‘ip route’ showed nothing. So the issue is that it doesn’t use my router ip as gateway.
I confirmed the above setup in ‘yast2-network setting’. OK out again but it would now turn on the wifi. Especially ‘ip route’ could then show my router ip but it said to be connected using the wlan0 ip address.
I then tried ‘sudo ip link set wlan0 down’, which killed wifi, but along with my internet, since ‘ip route’ became empty again. After many reboots and attempts it’s the same cycle.
Ethernet doesn’t accept my default gateway ip, wifi would rob the gateway ip setting to itself when I confirm the setup in Yast2.
As a result I can’t have internet without turning off wifi.
