WiFi won’t auto-connect and stops working after lid close on fresh openSUSE + Plasma install

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I’m running a fresh installation of openSUSE with KDE Plasma on a Lenovo Pro 7 Aura laptop. I’m running into several frustrating WiFi issues, and I hope someone here can help me dig into them.

Using the Plasma GUI, when I try to connect to a WiFi network (eduroam, for example), it hangs in an endless loop — it never really connects, and gives no error
If I open a terminal and run: nmcli con up eduroam --ask
it does connect. But this does not auto-connect in future sessions (i.e. when the network becomes available again) — I have to manually do that nmcli command each time.

After closing the lid and reopening, the WiFi disappears — no networks show up. I can’t reconnect at all until I reboot. The WiFi interface seems to vanish.

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It sounds like you have user connection and secrets are not saved or no Secrets Agent is running.

Have you tried to set the connection as system, so the secrets are always available?

It sounds like hardware problem and it is better to not mix two unrelated issues in one topic.

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Sorry, I am new to using opensuse. Could you tell me how to set the connection as a system? I have not set up any Secrets Agent.

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Sorry, I am new to using opensuse. Could you tell me how to set the connection as a system? I have not set up any Secrets Agent.

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Go the Systemsettings- WiFi & Networks, select the connection, change these settings:

  • In the General tab: check “All users can connect”
  • In the Security tab, set the passphrase to be stored unencrypted for all users

From here the connection should be able to be made at boot

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