Cannot Detect/Connect Wifi KDE Plasma
by LacunaBlue from LinuxQuestions.org on (#532JJ)
Hello and thanks in advance for your patience and assistance.
After spending an embarrassing amount of time getting my RealTek usb device to seemingly work on my Tumbleweed/KDE Plasma setup, I am unable to figure out how to detect my home's wifi signal and connect to it.
(I ultimately used https://github.com/damienz/rtl88xxau-openSUSE to ready my wifi hardware. I think this did something but don't know how to confirm.)
I have poured through various guides and Google searches (including this forum), but am too inept to put the different tidbits together to generate a workable solution to both detect and then connect to my wifi signal.
Seeking some A-Z assistance as a last resort. Just let me know what you'd like to see. At the least, I'll get some command line practice in.
Code:Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.Code: *-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: enp5s0
version: 06
serial: 44:8a:5b:89:5b:36
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=5.6.8-1-default duplex=full firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 ip=192.168.1.246 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:16 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:fe704000-fe704fff memory:fe700000-fe703fff- Networks icon in System Tray only detects the Ethernet connection.
- YaST > Network Settings > Overview successfully displays the USB wifi device.
- I attempted to install plasma-nm via YaST but, frankly, have no idea how to use it after installing it (I think I installed it, anyway). Was hoping this widget/applet/whatever-it-is would give me a nice "here are the wifi signals we detected, click one and plug in your credentials wheee".
Thanks again!
After spending an embarrassing amount of time getting my RealTek usb device to seemingly work on my Tumbleweed/KDE Plasma setup, I am unable to figure out how to detect my home's wifi signal and connect to it.
(I ultimately used https://github.com/damienz/rtl88xxau-openSUSE to ready my wifi hardware. I think this did something but don't know how to confirm.)
I have poured through various guides and Google searches (including this forum), but am too inept to put the different tidbits together to generate a workable solution to both detect and then connect to my wifi signal.
Seeking some A-Z assistance as a last resort. Just let me know what you'd like to see. At the least, I'll get some command line practice in.
Code:Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.Code: *-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: enp5s0
version: 06
serial: 44:8a:5b:89:5b:36
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=5.6.8-1-default duplex=full firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 ip=192.168.1.246 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:16 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:fe704000-fe704fff memory:fe700000-fe703fff- Networks icon in System Tray only detects the Ethernet connection.
- YaST > Network Settings > Overview successfully displays the USB wifi device.
- I attempted to install plasma-nm via YaST but, frankly, have no idea how to use it after installing it (I think I installed it, anyway). Was hoping this widget/applet/whatever-it-is would give me a nice "here are the wifi signals we detected, click one and plug in your credentials wheee".
Thanks again!