Currently beta versions of both SLES 15 SP3 and openSUSE 15.3 are available for broader testing. In doing so I stumbled over a nasty bug in Autoyast, SUSE’s solution for automatic OS installations, when using the rules.xml mechanism:
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Getting rid of NetworkManager authorization prompts
Not exactly rocket science but since it took me a while to find out I’ll keep this here for future reference: to get rid of NetworkManager authorization prompts in openSUSE Leap 15.0 and similar distros, create /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/80-networkmanager-allow-users-group.rules: polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (/^org\.freedesktop\.NetworkManager\./.test(action.id) && subject.local && subject.active && subject.isInGroup(“users”)) { return polkit.Result.YES; } });
Changing Dell Wireless 5809e / Sierra Wireless EM7305 USB composition (MBIM, QMI, AT interface, NMEA)
Here’s a small update to my post from last year on Dell Wireless 5809e support in Linux – a followup.
Dell Wireless 5809e support in Linux – a followup
Here’s a followup on my previous post Dell Wireless 5809e support in openSUSE 13.2.
Fixing wireless regulatory support (crda, wireless-regdb) on openSUSE Tumbleweed
On recent SUSE-based distributions such as openSUSE Tumbleweed (and potentially also 13.2), executing iw reg get to check your WiFi device’s regulatory setup will likely get you an output such as this: global country 00: DFS-UNSET (2402 – 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A) (2457 – 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A), NO-IR (2474 -… Continue reading Fixing wireless regulatory support (crda, wireless-regdb) on openSUSE Tumbleweed
Correcting the soundcard order with onboard sound and HDMI output
Like many current devices with HDMI output, my Latitude E7450 offers multiple sound cards but configures the HDMI output as sound card 0 (the default). And xfce’s default sound mixer doesn’t offer switching the default output… To correct the soundcard order, add this to your /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf (valid for openSUSE 13.2, probably other distros as well):… Continue reading Correcting the soundcard order with onboard sound and HDMI output
Dell Wireless 5809e support in openSUSE 13.2
This post is about getting the LTE card to work that gets built into current Dell Notebooks such as the Latitude E5450/E7450:
Updating to XFCE 4.12 on openSUSE 13.2
Quite simple actually: # sudo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_13.2/ XFCE_13.2 # sudo zypper dup –from XFCE_13.2
Enabling libvirt channels by adding virtio_console to the openSUSE installation
libvirt supports the concept of so-called channels that represent private communication channels between a libvirt guest and its host.
Connecting to libvirtd as non-root user on openSUSE 13.1
As a revisit to my previous post on connecting to libvirtd as a non-root user on openSUSE 12.2, the way to do it on openSUSE 13.1 is the same that worked for Marek Goldmann on Fedora 18 (although he used the wheel group). Create /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/80-libvirt-manage.rules with the following content: polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (action.id ==… Continue reading Connecting to libvirtd as non-root user on openSUSE 13.1