Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[babu walad <vyav@xxxxxxxxx>]

Folks,

A feek or so ago I posted that my modules.conf has
disappeared during Yast2 installation, and this group
correctly diagnosed the problem as a bug in Yast2 when
one has custom partitions for Linux, as I do.

The tricky part was "downloading" the Yast2 patch when
Yast2 was unable to configure your NIC card...

Well, I eventually did "download" and install the
y2base
RPM with no errors (at least I didn't see any output).

Problem is it does suceed in saving the modules.conf
file but it FAILS to configure my NIC card. I have a
Linksys NIC which used the "tulip" linux driver.

I have repeated this process half a dozen times or
more. Here is what happens:

1. If I install into a defaul partitioning, everything
   works great. NIC and Sound are configured and
   saved correctly.

2. If I install into a custom partition using original
   or patched yast2, it fails to save the modules.conf
   file, which ends up as modules.conf-, but the NIC
   card works perfectly! Once I reboot my machine,
   the NIC goes to hell. Can never reconfigur it!

3. Last attempt was, install Suse 7.1 afresh without
   configuring NIC and Sound. Quit Yast2 and install
   Yast2 patch. Restart Yast2 and configure NIC. Does
   not work. It always says could not get DHCP IP
   address, card not functioning correctly. When I
   reboot into windows, NIC card is functional so it
is
   not a hardware problem.

Here is my modules.conf without configuring NIC. After
it is a copy of modules.conf after running patched
yast2 to configure my NIC. You will notice it just
adds a comment that it is configuring the network card
but in fact it does nothing!!

Is there a way to manually configure the NIC? This
is getting very annoying and wasteful. Help!!

Thanks for everyone's help!!

Babu


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