Thanks for your contributions, but in the end I just bought a different card
for 10 euros and disabled the onboard broadcom, a cop out for sure but i had
to get over this problem. With new card everything worked straight off, no
problems
On 11/9/05, Kevin McGarry
hi,
I have installed Suse 9.0 on a Dell GX520. The installer picked up my onboard NIC (Broadcom NetXTreme 57xx Gigabit Controller) and I can see it and check the values in the YaST control centre.
The problem is I can´t connect to the internet. I can ping 127.0.0.1http://127.0.0.1/, but no other machines. I get "network is unreachable" errors. I get the same message if I use DHCP or static IP address. I turned on the debug value in the network/config file and it gave me some extra debug info on boot up. The following is a copy (typed) of the boot.msg
eth0 ifup DEBUG eth0 -o onboot rc ifup HWDESC=eth0 CONFIG=eth0 INTERFACE=nointerface ifup could not get a valid interface name -> skipped (returned 7) failed
To make matters worse, I´m a newbie.
Any ideas?