OpenSuSE 15.6 on Dell N5110 Wireless network setup problem

Carl Spitzer <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:37:55 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.general
Message-ID <CAHeBFz3_DzJEQQgN7ohX7isJszkEhxi-jxLbeGaKMdgJcE=m=A@mail.gmail.com>
OpenSuSE 15.6 on Dell N5110

iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

localhost:/home/cwsiv # ifup wlan0
<13>Jun 16 17:23:15 root: Network is managed by 'NetworkManager.service' ->
skipping

In YAST
Detect Network Device
Read Driver Information
Detect current status

Read device Configuration ---- freezes at this point must kill -9 out as
root
               Never gets to
Read Network Configuration
Read firewall configuration

ps aux | grep yast
root     30229 98.7  3.5 1030052 286416 ?      Rl   14:26  19:45
/usr/bin/ruby.ruby2.5 --encoding=utf-8 /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2start lan qt
-name YaST2 -icon yast