On Thu, 2020-04-30 at 11:44 +0200, Stephen Berman wrote:
When I rebooted Tumbleweed after updating to snapshot 20200425 (which included kernel 5.6.6), the Network Manager showed no active wireless network connection (though it listed the router I connect to), and when I tried to reconnect I was requested (by the policy kit security manager?) to enter the root password, but when I did, nothing happened. I have seen no reports of a similar problem. Only after booting a previous snapshot with kernel 5.6.4 was the network available again. When I run `zypper dup' with this snapshot it wants to install everything from snapshot 20200425 and later. What can I do to restore network access on current tw?
I'd first tets if this is really the kernel causing the problem. This is quite easy, as you can keep multiple kernels on your system. for this, set in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf: multiversion = provides:multiversion(kernel) multiversion.kernels = latest,latest-1,running Then zypper dup and pick the old kernel from the grub boot menu. Like this you would have snapshot 0425, running on the older kernel. If this works, you can file a bug against the kernel for regressing on your wireless chip. If t his also does not work, we'll have to dig deeper what else could have broken your Wifi (in which case a rollback will be the quickest to get you working again); running with the older kernel on the new snapshot would be no problem and you could workl ike this until a fix is coming. Cheers, Dominique