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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.
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 with sudo systemctl start NetworkManager, then chekc your connection again.
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.