Greetings list. I am new to Suse coming from RedHat and Fedora. I've had a few issues with Fedora and RedHat has changed their business model, so I thought I would give Suse a try. I successfully installed personal 9.1 on my laptop, however I'm having trouble with the wireless nic on it. The install process detected it but I'm not sure how to activate it when I want to use it. On my old system I could just ifup eth1 from a command prompt, and that now gives me an error about no config found for eth1. ifup wlan-bus-pcmcia gives me a different error, but still doesn't get me connected. So, that being said, where should I start as a user switching distros? Any good docs I could read to help me get the swing of things on the switchover while I test this out? Thanks. -=/>Thom
On Thursday 09 September 2004 13:01, Thom Paine wrote:
Greetings list.
I am new to Suse coming from RedHat and Fedora. I've had a few issues with Fedora and RedHat has changed their business model, so I thought I would give Suse a try.
I successfully installed personal 9.1 on my laptop, however I'm having trouble with the wireless nic on it. The install process detected it but I'm not sure how to activate it when I want to use it. On my old system I could just ifup eth1 from a command prompt, and that now gives me an error about no config found for eth1. ifup wlan-bus-pcmcia gives me a different error, but still doesn't get me connected.
are you sure it's using the interface "eth1"? You might want to try ifconfig wlan0 up.
So, that being said, where should I start as a user switching distros? Any good docs I could read to help me get the swing of things on the switchover while I test this out?
Thanks.
-=/>Thom
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Thom Paine wrote:
Greetings list.
I am new to Suse coming from RedHat and Fedora. I've had a few issues with Fedora and RedHat has changed their business model, so I thought I would give Suse a try.
I successfully installed personal 9.1 on my laptop, however I'm having trouble with the wireless nic on it. The install process detected it but I'm not sure how to activate it when I want to use it. On my old system I could just ifup eth1 from a command prompt, and that now gives me an error about no config found for eth1. ifup wlan-bus-pcmcia gives me a different error, but still doesn't get me connected.
So, that being said, where should I start as a user switching distros? Any good docs I could read to help me get the swing of things on the switchover while I test this out?
Thanks.
-=/>Thom
Look in /etc/sysconfig/network, for the devices SuSE knows about. You'll see stuff like ifcfg-eth-id-00:00:e2:8a:26:aa or ifcfg-wlan-id-00:20:e0:8a:a6:ce, which will be your NIC and WiFi. You then use commands like ifup wlan-id-00:20:e0:8a:a6:ce or ifdown ifcfg-eth-id-00:00:e2:8a:26:aa. It's preferable to use that form, as you may find that eth0 or eth1 doesn't always refer to the same device.
Thom Paine wrote: (...)
So, that being said, where should I start as a user switching distros? Any good docs I could read to help me get the swing of things on the switchover while I test this out?
The world would be much better if every distro had a simple page, showing the already initiated user how to use the available tools. For exemple, suse tricks: /etc/init.d/postfix restart or /etc/rc.d/postfix restart or rcpostfix restart insserv mailman or lots and lots of "ln -s ....mailman" load modules at boot time: edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel, MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT or man modules.conf; man modprobe.conf; edit, cross your fingers and reboot; edit again, etc, etc, etc how to restore grub after "fdisk /mbr" etc, etc, etc Although there is "binary compatibility", there is almost no "administration compatibility" - It could make muh easier the transition phase, or even provoke a faster distro change. Sometimes we spent lots of time doing the job of an already existent tool; but due to a sort of problems, it was unknown and was not used. Anyone knows about such a reference? -- Marcos Lazarini
Op donderdag 9 september 2004 23:46, schreef Marcos Lazarini:
Anyone knows about such a reference? http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/
-- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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