Hi Steve,

Looks like you did it ok.  Maybe we can get together after your trip and 
look at it?  I need to talk to you about other things as well :)

-- 
George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
AGD,LLC
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623-203-1760


Steve Smith wrote:
> 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
>> CIO
>> AGD,LLC
>> www.agdllc.com
>> 623-203-1760
>>
>>
>> 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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