hi Steve,
Did you go into routing and define the default gateway? 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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