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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