Sunday, 18 March 2012

OpenSUSE NetworkManager doesn't switch on

NetworkManager cannot switch on WiFi interface. The switch jumps back to "off" immediately.

But the WiFi is actually working fine manually with wpa_supplicant followed by "dhcpcd wlan0".

Turned out the solution is to:
  • add "blacklist acer-wmi" to /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
  • reboot

Then the NetworkManager works perfectly.

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