
On 10/07/2021 17.33, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
My new computer is an
HP 15s-eq2147 FHD RYZ5-5 16GB 512 SSD DOS
It has no cable connection to the internet, but only access via WiFi.
My _personal_ choice, is never buy a laptop without Ethernet connector.
Installing Leap 15.3 was no problem, but so far I did not manage to establish a WiFi connection.
Using Yast, I set up a wicked service with fixed address, getting this list:
Device Name: wlan0 Configured with address 192.168.2.16/24 (acer.ariannuccia.zz) Starting automatically on cable connection
I find it somewhat absurd that a cable connection is required even for WiFi. Since I have no cable connection, I am looking for a work around. Any idea?
Just ignore it :-) Or choose "always" if available. My interpretation: some laptops have a button to enable/disable the wifi. When you enable it would be considered "cable connect". Although with WiFi I would prefer Network Manager: it is far easier if you ever move your laptop.
The "Authentication Mode" offers these 5 options:
No Encryption WEP - Open WEP - Shared Key WPA-EAP ("enterprise") WPA-PSK ("home")
The later.
On my router (192.168.2.1) there are these "Encryption type":
Unencrypted (not recommended) WPA2 (very secure) WPA / WPA2 (secure) WPA (secure)
The second one one. Alternatively, the third one.
For avoiding problems with the correspondence of these methods, I have selected "No Encryption" on my computer and "Unencrypted (not recommended)" on my router.
No, change that immediately. Unless you live in the middle of nowhere, no neighbour in half a mile. Even then, I would not use it.
But the connection does not work. Any attempt to ping the router from the new computer is rejected with the reply:
connect: Network is unreachable
Any help would be welcome.
ip addr as root. If that does not give an address, look at what Stephan said. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.1 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))