Hello all Please excuse me if I am not sending this to the correct list. I installed SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha3 on two computers a HP PentiumIII ebox at the office and my T40 Thinkpad at home. On both computer my eth0 connection to Internet was KO during the installation connection test (first time!) and on the post install login (first time again!). If I ran "/etc/initd.d/network restart" after logon I could raise an Internet connection for a few brief instants until the new network connection manager (ifplugd?) took over, it killed the connection. # at work W3847:/etc/init.d # ./network restart Shutting down network interfaces: eth0 device: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:01:02:0a:6e:13 done Shutting down service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . done Setting up network interfaces: lo lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 done eth0 device: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:01:02:0a:6e:13 eth0 is controlled by ifplugd done Setting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . done W3847:/etc/init.d # ping 10123.1.23 PING 10123.1.23 (10123.1.23) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=6.78 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=2 ttl=116 time=4.58 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=3 ttl=116 time=6.59 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=4 ttl=116 time=7.70 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=5 ttl=116 time=6.06 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=6 ttl=116 time=5.40 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=23 ttl=116 time=6.43 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=24 ttl=116 time=4.76 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=25 ttl=116 time=5.94 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=26 ttl=116 time=6.07 ms ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable # at home On my Thinkpad, my IP address is attributed dynamically (in the 192.x.x.x range), the new SUSE network connection manager kept changing it to another completely different IP range. The bottom line is that without a working Internet connection, the installation (and the SUSE-10.1-Alpha3 CD's) are useless. - does anyone have any ideas on how I get a working DHCP connection Thanks in advance James