Re: network management settings fails for opensuse 13.1

[Larry Finger <Larry Finger lwfinger net>]

On 12/09/2013 11:12 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 16:27 +0100, Nathan Manzi wrote:
> > I am new user of opensuse and i need a help on how to set up my wifi. I
> > have  delete my windows operating systemand then i have installed opensuse
> > 13.1 on it. Installation went well but when it comes for the settings of
> > network manager. I have tried to use  yast for the settings but it says
> > that my network is controlled by network manager and i tried to set up but
> > i still have the problem interfaces is unavailable and i couldn't fix it.
> > My laptop is hp pavillion and it is intel centrino 2 inside. I really don't
> > know how to fix it.  I have run this command
> > *hwinfo -- short --wlan  *
> > I have found that i have  *Network: wlp2s0               Intel PRO/Wireless
> > 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network connection *
> > when running *uname -r      *i  got this   *    3.11.6.4-desktop*
> >
> > But i do not see my interfaces such as eth0 or eth1 which seems to be weird
> > for me .  When running *ifconfig -a*
> > i got these interfaces *enp3s0* , *lo *and* wlp2s0 *
> >   so i would like to have a help to fix this issues
> > Thanks for helping me .
>
> Your network interfaces are not eth0 and eth1, but instead are enp3s0
> (ethernet, pci bus 3, slot 0) and wlp2s0 (wireless, pci bus 2, slot 0).
> The 'udev' program determines these names for you.  There are various
> ways to get udev to use more "normal" device names, but those involve
> editing configuration and are best asked on the udev  mailing lists
> instead of NetworkManager's.
>
> So back to NetworkManager; do you see any kind of network control applet
> in your desktop?  It's usually in the top-right or bottom-right corners
> on a toolbar, or in a status area along stuff like the volume control.
> If you click that network control applet, what do you see?

Nathan,

Dan Williams is extremely knowledgeable about NetworkManager, but I don't think 
he is an openSUSE user. Another place to get help, and a place where openSUSE 
users are found, is at http://forums.opensuse.org/forum.php. You should create 
an account there, and post your question on the wireless forum.

I would give you some more help here, but I would need to know what desktop you 
are using (KDE, Gnome, ??). That makes a difference on how you set the NM 
parameters. The fact that you get a wireless device named wlp2s0 means that you 
are close.

Larry