George Toft wrote:
> hi Steve,
> 
> Did you go into routing and define the default gateway?  

Hi, George

I just used yast or yast2 from the command line: selected network 
devices and edited the card entry to put in the ip addr, netmask, 
default gateway and dns servers - same info I'd give 'setup' under 
Redhat (I depend on those gui tools a bit too much, I think)

Does SUSE have a separate tool to define the gateway?
Thanks much!
Steve

If it sent ARP
> requests andis  getting replies, it's not a driver or config problem. 
> Pretty quirky of YaST, but once you set up the card's properties, you 
> then have to go into the routing tool.  For a commandline guy, I 
> neglected this as I was thinking routed, which I definitely do not need. 
>  It tripped me up on my SuSE 9 Workstation and SuSE 9 Server installs.
> 
> Let me know, eh?
> 
> George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
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> 
> Steve Smith wrote:
> 
>> I got my free SUSE goodies from Novell a few weeks ago and thought I'd 
>> load it up on the laptop I'm taking to Defcon. I've gotta ask... WTF 
>> is up with YAST and networking?  Is it *really* completely freaking 
>> broken but nobody talks about it? That's hard to believe...
>>
>> Here's what happened. I popped in the SUSE Pro 9.1 DVD and started the 
>> install. During the detect stage it paused for a few moments and then 
>> correctly identified the box as a 'Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600' - hot 
>> dang! I won't have to dork around selecting hardware 'cause it already 
>> knows about it!  Well, no. Not really.
>>
>> It was just grand with everything except networking. It identified the 
>> Intel Pro 100 and the internal Toshiba wireless card (and on later 
>> installs a Cisco Aironet 350 as well) but no amount of coaxing would 
>> get either to work. With the Pro100, I watched with tcpdump as it sent 
>> happy little ARP requests inquiring about the gateway (and got nice, 
>> happy replies), but that's the closest it got to actually 
>> communicating - after 3 installs in all, Just In Case.
>>
>> Minor nuisance, I thought - I'll just burn the SUSE Pro 8.1 images 
>> onto disks and install that. Surely they've got the bugs out of that 
>> one, eh?
>>
>> Wrong-o. Same story, except it wasn't quite as pretty and didn't 
>> identify the hardware by name. Nice clean install followed by no 
>> network no matter how I coaxed it.
>>
>> Next, I popped in a Redhat 9 CD. Again, nice clean install... and, 
>> wonder of wonders: all the network stuff Just Works. I didn't even 
>> have to say please.
>>
>> I saw a mention in the SUSE 9.1 release notes that they can't ship 
>> firmware for wireless cards for some reason. OK, I'll cut em slack on 
>> that. But really, what's up with the Intel Pro 100?  (I did quite a 
>> bit of googling too, btw) I'd still like to run SUSE to get used to it 
>> if I can get it to talk on a network. Anyone know the Magic Word 
>> required for that to happen? Maybe a totally paranoid Deny Absolutely 
>> Everything firewall ruleset? I didn't check for that...
>>
>> TIA,
>> Steve
>>
>> btw, Anyone else heading to Vegas?
>>
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