Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Mads Martin Jørgensen <mmj@xxxxxxx>]

* Brian Carver <bwcarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [May 01. 2002 10:37]:
> Hi,
> 
> I may have to call/e-mail SuSE on this, but before I tried that I 
> thought I'd ask here. I've installed 8.0 on a Sony PCG-F370 laptop with 
> not much trouble. The problem is that it doesn't seem to like my D-Link 
> PCMCIA network card, and so I can't get the laptop on the internet (via 
> my home lan).  The laptop connects fine when in Windoze 98, so hardware 
> issues are mostly ruled out.
> 
> After boot-up ifconfig shows that only the local loopback 127.0.0.1 is 
> up and eth0 isn't even listed.  If I do 'ifconfig eth0 up' then it will 

Have you read how we redesigned network setup? (Try ifup eth0 instead of
using ifconfig)

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mmj_network80.html

There's also

http://sdb.suse.de/cgi-bin/sdbsearch_en.cgi?stichwort=80+pcmcia

-- 
Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk
"Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic
 and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?"
                                -- A. P. J.