Yast hangs on network->Read Driver Information

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I wanted to check something related to the network and now i find that i cant get into the network settings at all because the network app hangs at “Read Driver Information” on startup
I’m using latest TW on x86_64 system, ASUS motherboard ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO with 32G of dram
It looks like i am using the igc (Intel(R) 2.5G Ethernet Linux Driver) network driver and i am not running NetworkManager, but instead i use wicked
lspci says:
00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-S PCH CNVi WiFi (rev 11)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I226-V (rev 06)
00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-S PCH CNVi WiFi (rev 11)
google didnt help me, or maybe i am asking the wrong questions there

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Note:I came back a couple of hours later and noticed that it finally did complete initialization. Whatever, that’s unacceptably slow.

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I seldom use the YaST utilities. However, I don’t experience such a delay with YaST > Hardware > Network Settings.

For network hardware and interface status you could do
inxi -na

What specific information are you after?

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I wanted to verify ipv6 was disabled, but this shouldn’t be hanging like it is, I’d like to get to the bottom of it. There must be one or ore timeouts involved for it to take so long to bull though. It would be nice to know if/what they are and possibly to alter the timeout time.
The inxi was a command i have used a few times but forgotten about - thanks

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You can see if it is disabled globally with
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6
or
sudo sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6

You can also check for IPv6 assignments with
ip a |grep inet6
If nothing is returned then it is disabled.

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Thanks, but why is yast hanging? It hangs in console version as well as gui version.
How can i determine the cause?

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Just in case the following thread is of value: