Recently, I put openSUSE on my laptop, with the kde4 windows manager, and it was (kind of) love at first sight. A couple of days ago, however, I played around with some vpn related packages to login to my work’s vpn. Using Yast, I installed a couple of packages and Yast automatically installed some dependencies with them (of course). Little did I know, that I was breaking my wifi…
After I was done, I noticed that while knetworkmanager still showed the available wireless networks, I couldn’t connect to any of them. Clicking on a connection that had been set up before, didn’t seem to do anything. Never underestimate the power of Linux, however. (OK, it shouldn’t have broken in the first place, but well…) What did I find in /var/log/NetworkManager? This:
Not being a Linux-guru myself, this didn’t mean a whole lot to me, but it provided me with the necessary seeds to sow in the google-field, and true enough, after a couple of minutes, google bore a nice ripe peace of fruit: the answer. A short synopsis for the not so adventurous: I had to remove the (inadvertently installed) package “NetworkManager-kde4″, which worked perfectly.
Now openSUSE and I are on friendly terms again.
