Upgrade to Freedom! The Switch from Windows 10
Upgrade to Freedom! The Switch from Windows 10
The end of Windows 10 support in October 2025 presents a great opportunity for the Linux community to collectively help users transition their still-function...
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Could that be my issue? I've always done Gnome. WiFi is always broken. Network in general really.
To be fair, that sounds like a driver issue rather than a desktop environment. But you can try though.
Could be. What blows my mind is that both my PC and laptop work on Fedora, PopOS, Endeavour, and Bazzite out of the box, but network is fully broken, LAN and WiFi.
Does network work on those distros but not on openSUSE, or network doesn't work at all?
Maybe it's a switch issue? Can you try
sudo rfkilland see what's the output?They work on any other distro I've tried. OpenSUSE is the only one that never gets an address. Static or DHCP, doesn't make a difference. I'll try again with your suggestion from a USB drive, since I don't remember all the things I tried that did nothing to help. Thanks.
No problem.
Hmm, if there was a soft-block or a hard-block that would affect all the other distros as well. In that case, trying from a Live ISO would indeed help. Maybe this could be something related to Network Manager. Can you check interfaces with
ip a?Also check if Network Manager running with
systemctl status NetworkManager. If it doesn't work, start it withsudo systemctl start NetworkManager, then chekc your connection again.