May 2026 - Hello Im a very new openSUSE tumbleweed user I was using it on a 2010 laptop (HP G62). The experience was very good and I was surprised that many distributions can’t run kernel 6.8 and even mate desktop on it . I choose plasma and it was very beautiful and fast and the system was approximately the fastest and best I have tried .The problem was that the Wi-Fi didn’t work it was saying “waiting for authorization” I really suffer and I installed the (“kernel-firmware-realtek”)from software.openSUSE and it doesn’t work so I return to the first snapshot and it works!. I think the problem was in the Kwallet or the drivers. I hope this problem be solved
Hello and welcome to the openSUSE forums.
It would have been better you had made a title like “Wifi waiting for authorization”.
Remember you need advertise your problem so that is there is maximum change that those in the know of that area see it and are triggered to open and read it.
Ok thank you very much
I’ve adjusted the title for you, so hopefully that will help get you some help.
Thank you so much Im sorry but I was very new
No worries, we’ve all been there at some point. 
Can you share the output of inxi when the Wifi is working for the first snapshot, for me that gives:
> inxi -nz
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM driver: e1000e
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: ASUSTek USB-N14 802.11b/g/n (2x2) Wireless Adapter [Ralink
RT5372] driver: rt2800usb type: USB
IF: wlp0s20f0u2 state: up mac: <filter>
When you have it for the working do the same for the case things are not working and compare things, are the same?
Please also share the output of nmcli for the case things are not working.
I don’t know how to get that (i know how to deal with Linux but Wi-Fi problems is new to me)
To get the inxi output open Konsole and on the prompt that appears then type “inxi -nz”.
Select the command and the output, do Edit → Copy and paste that in a new message for this topic, same for the nmcli output.
Thank you , I have solved the problem and everyone helped me but where do you know this
Do anyone knows how to speed up Wi-Fi on old devices (15 years) because my router give 1000 MiB/s and my device after many adjustments got only 5 MiB/s
You did not provide the information which @marel requested. So how could anybody help you without knowing anything about your system?
And what speed does your internet sevice provider gives you according your contract and meassurements? Your router does not matter in this case.
My device has
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN driver: rtl8192se
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: (filter)
Pls can anyone help me to speed my wifi on this card
You were asked to provide information by @marel (and he explained how to do that in a second post). @hui pointed you to the fact that you still did not. As long as you do not provide the information asked for, less and less people will try to help you.
Now your WiFi is working again and your wonder about the speed, please provide the output of “iw dev wlp0s20f0u2 link”
> sudo iw dev wlp0s20f0u2 link
Connected to 0d:9b:d5:54:3d:b7 (on wlp0s20f0u2)
SSID: <filter>
freq: 2412.0
RX: 356604 bytes (3511 packets)
TX: 2771 bytes (34 packets)
signal: -61 dBm
rx bitrate: 1.0 MBit/s
tx bitrate: 86.7 MBit/s MCS 12 short GI
bss flags: short-preamble short-slot-time
dtim period: 2
beacon int: 100
Could be that your device name is not wlp0s20f0u2, if so issue ip a and get the correct interface name.
Even simpler:
> /bin/cat /proc/net/wireless
Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE
face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 22
wlp0s20f0u2: 0000 49. -61. -256 0 0 0 1 13 0
Thank you I’ll do it and im sorry because I didn’t reply or give to you information last time
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