I am running openSUSE 12.1 Beta 1 GNOME and I cannot get an internet
connection. 

The wireless on my laptop says missing firmware which is fine. It says
this on any distro and I can get it working. However, I can not get my
wired connection to work. It keeps trying to connect and says
"Connection Failed Activation of Network Connection Failed.

I have seen other people have this problem online somewhere and they
said they had to swap something from manual to auto, but I am not sure
what or where.

I know that this laptops ethernet card will work fine on here b/c I
used openSUSE 11.4 before and I also was on the last milestone release
before beta and it worked.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance.


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As an update I just did a reinstall and the ethernet continues to fail
to connect.


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On another side note I just installed openSUSE 12.1 KDE Beta 1 and it
does not work there as well.


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On 10/07/2011 03:46 PM, Aydos13 wrote:
>
> On another side note I just installed openSUSE 12.1 KDE Beta 1 and it
> does not work there as well.

Some details concerning the faulty hardware is necessary, or do you just want to 
complain. In particular, '/sbin/lspci -nn' is needed.

This may be a variant of the problem that I have run into in testing
both Fedora 16 and openSUSE 12.1. If so, one workaround is to edit the
connection, setting it to launch automatically and to be available to
all users. Then restart the system. If you do have the same problem, all
should be well thereafter. The problem has been around for some time in
network manager, and there was a bug report active at one stage - sorry,
but I don't have the number to hand.


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No I did not just come here to complain that is a bold face assumption. 

However, I am driving now and I will get the information when I get
home today. I was not sure what information was needed from me.


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Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1600] (rev 02)


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That is the problem I saw floating around the web.

Forgive my ignorance, but where do I need to go and what do I need to
edit to get it running.

Thank you.

Bennachie;2391370 Wrote: 
> This may be a variant of the problem that I have run into in testing
> both Fedora 16 and openSUSE 12.1. If so, one workaround is to edit the
> connection, setting it to launch automatically and to be available to
> all users. Then restart the system. If you do have the same problem, all
> should be well thereafter. The problem has been around for some time in
> network manager, and there was a bug report active at one stage - sorry,
> but I don't have the number to hand.


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Go to <Network> under <System Settings>, and click on the <Configure>
button to launch the editor. I suspect that you could edit almost
anything, including the name you choose to give the connection, and that
the real catalyst for a working connection is saving the revised
configuration. However, the common wisdom seems to be that the
connection should be set to launch automatically (even if it is already
in that configuration - just click the relevant box off then on again)
and that works for me too. 

As a security blanket (because it forces the package actually to save
the new configuration) I usually also make the connection available to
all users. That is fine from my perspective, but you could try omitting
that step if you have any concerns. Let us know how you get on.


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On 10/07/2011 05:16 PM, Aydos13 wrote:
>
> Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752
> Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1600] (rev 02)

Editing any files other than the driver source will not help you. Your device is 
NOT in the kernel driver tables. I'm not quite sure why, as an older source I 
found has that ID included. I will contact the maintainer to see why it might 
have been changed.

As a temporary work around, do the following:

[code]
su -
/sbin/modprobe -v tg3
/bin/echo "14e4 1600" > /sys/bus/drivers/tg3/new_id
[/code]

Please report back if this helps. If it does, you will need these commands every 
time you reboot. You could also add the last two of those commands to 
/etc/init.d/boot.local. That way the commands will be run whenever you reboot.

Bennachie;2391380 Wrote: 
> Go to <Network> under <System Settings>, and click on the <Configure>
> button to launch the editor. I suspect that you could edit almost
> anything, including the name you choose to give the connection, and that
> the real catalyst for a working connection is saving the revised
> configuration. However, the common wisdom seems to be that the
> connection should be set to launch automatically (even if it is already
> in that configuration - just click the relevant box off then on again)
> and that works for me too. 
> 
> As a security blanket (because it forces the package actually to save
> the new configuration) I usually also make the connection available to
> all users. That is fine from my perspective, but you could try omitting
> that step if you have any concerns. Let us know how you get on.


When I open Network under system settings I get a window that pops up
with a computer making a :( face and says The system network services
are not compatible with this version.

Any ideas from here ?


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lwfinger;2391566 Wrote: 
> On 10/07/2011 05:16 PM, Aydos13 wrote:
> >
> > Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752
> > Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1600] (rev 02)
> 
> Editing any files other than the driver source will not help you. Your
> device is
> NOT in the kernel driver tables. I'm not quite sure why, as an older
> source I
> found has that ID included. I will contact the maintainer to see why it
> might
> have been changed.
> 
> As a temporary work around, do the following:
> 
> > 
Code:
--------------------
  >   > 
  > su -
  > /sbin/modprobe -v tg3
  > /bin/echo "14e4 1600" > /sys/bus/drivers/tg3/new_id
  > 
--------------------
> > 
> 
> Please report back if this helps. If it does, you will need these
> commands every
> time you reboot. You could also add the last two of those commands
> to
> /etc/init.d/boot.local. That way the commands will be run whenever
> you reboot.

When I run that command I get /sys/bus/drivers/tg3/new_id: No such file
or directory.

Any luck contacting the maintainer ?


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Aydos13;2392782 Wrote: 
> When I open Network under system settings I get a window that pops up
> with a computer making a :( face and says The system network services
> are not compatible with this version.
> 
> Any ideas from here ?

I apologize. I guess I had not originally rebooted after the install (I
have re installed a couple of times in KDE and GNOME) so it was not
detecting any network stuff and just ad proxy as an option. After a
quick reboot I had a wired connection again that failed to connect. 

I went to network under settings and looked at wired and nothing seemed
to be wrong. I clicked save on the configure menu and it popped a window
asking for the admin password and then it instantly closes and starts
trying to connect again which fails.


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Ok I am not sure what all I did, but i have it working. Thanks for all
the help that got me here.


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From YaST2; Global Options (tab) select; Traditional Method with ifup
/click-OK then reboot the system.
The wired network should connect.  I made sure the following (below)
were also added, then I went back to Network Settings, and selected;
User Controlled with NetworkManager. Use only KDE not the gnome.

NetworkManager - Network Link Manager and User Applications
(0.9.0-7.1)
NetworkManager-kde4-libs - NetworkManager client for KDE 4
(0.9.1git20110911-1.1)
libnm-glib4 - Convenience library for clients of NetworkManager
(0.9.0-7.1)
libnm-util2 - Convenience library for clients of NetworkManager
(0.9.0-7.1)
plasmoid-networkmanagement - NetworkManager client for KDE 4
(0.9.1git20110911-1.1)
NetworkManager-openvpn - NetworkManager VPN support for OpenVPN
(0.9.0-1.2)
NetworkManager-openvpn-kde4 - NetworkManager client for KDE 4
(0.9.1git20110911-1.1)
libnm-glib-vpn1 - Convenience library for NetworkManager VPN plugins
(0.9.0-7.1)


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