Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (949 mails)

[Peter Nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 22 Aug 2009 11:18:41 Per Jessen wrote:
> Peter Nikolic wrote:
> > MS5 observations
> >
> > Network setup (this one is still in existence since 10.0 at least)
> > when yast attempts to configure the network it fails every time it
> > seems not to be able to set the gateway IP  the nameserver IP   DHCP
> > fails  to get an  address with the failures
>
> Peter, are you seriously suggesting that YaST network setup has not been
> working since 10.0 ??  I can't exactly confirm that - the only network
> config problem I have had is when I do an installation over ssh+nfs and
> then change the network address during stage2.  Mea culpa really.
>
>
> /Per
I can totally and completely safely say  that altohu it sets up the drivers 
for the network card ok and always has done   that for the longest time it has 
failed completely to enable the network correctly  and so left it in a state 
of  WTF   i then end up having to set things up manually and reboot  to get 
networking working correctly   .

When doing an install  it gets to the checking for updates part then just 
fails saying network unreachable  till i sort it by hand .

This has been so since 10.0 for certain and maybe prior to that but that is 
going back tooooo far to remember now      , As it happens it is not a problem 
for me i know it is going to happen and can fix it easily  but for people that 
are not as comfortable with Linux   / Yast  it could be a real PITA  


Pete .