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Thanks but what you advised me I've  already tested.  I configured eth0
and DSL0 (by YAST modul) that's ok; after I've setup wlan0 correctly on
my network and after I replaced eth0 with wlan0 ....  but .... nothing.

I got this message from "/var/log/messages" ...
*****
Plugin passwordfd.so loaded.
unrecognized option 'wlan0'
*****

So I tried to do 2 things:
1) renamed ifcfg-wlan-pcmcia to ifcfg-eth1 ... ERROR
2) I've checked IFUP-PPP file and I noticed that this script search
available interfaces to add "ifcfg-" before, so I modified "ifcfg-dsl0"
and instead "wlan0"  ... "wlan-pcmcia" .... nothing.

My view is that SuSE limit DSL YaST modul with the ethX interface and
does not allow us to use "hotplug" interfaces

What you think?
Andrea

PS. I remember you that with RedHat or Mandrake this operation is more
sample because any interface is called ethX so ...

Il sab, 2004-01-03 alle 10:12, Hartmut Meyer ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Freitag, 2. Januar 2004 23:43 schrieb Mailing:
> 
> > Il gio, 2004-01-01 alle 19:45, Hartmut Meyer ha scritto:
> > > Am Mittwoch, 31. Dezember 2003 18:26 schrieb Mailing:
> 
> > > > I discovered that Suse named wireless NIC wlanX instead ethX. This it's
> > > > ok but the problem is that DSL YAST module doesn't give me the
> > > > possibility to choose it. With Any other distribution is possible to
> > > > use wireless PCMCIA to use DSL connections.
> > >
> > > I think you're mixing things up. At least I'm not aware of any DSL modem
> > > that is connected via wlan to the computer. Of course their are plenty of
> > > those router devices that have a built-in DSL modem. However, the
> > > computer that gets connected to such a device (either normal ethernet or
> > > wlan) will not see any DSL specific thing. Therefore there is no need to
> > > configure PPPoE or PPPoA on your computer.
> > >
> > > All you need to do is to configure your NIC with a default route to your
> > > router. The DSL specific stuff is done within this DSL router.
> >
> > Thanks, but I connected my DSL ethernet modem to my access point; after
> > I configured my NIC ethX (ex.) to setup DSL connection ... after I
> > change the config. file and instead ethX I put in wlan0 (ex.).
> > I already made it since Rehat or Mandrake ... with Suse is impossible (I
> > hope no!). YAST DSL module configure my NIC (eth0) for the first time
> > and when I try to change into IFCFG-DSL0 with "wlan0" .... brrrrr.
> >
> > So what I made before with other distribution is possible .... now I'd
> > like make it with Super Suse.
> 
> I'm not 100% sure I understood you. Anyway, have you configured the wlan 
> connection as such? You won't be able to do that with the YaST2 DSL modul but 
> instead you will need to configure the wlan part with the YaST2 network card 
> module. In ideal case you can test the wlan connection with another computer 
> in your local network befor trying DSL.
> 
> Does your access point also offer (more than one) ethernet port? If so you 
> should first test DSL with a normal ethernet connection where both your 
> computer and your DSL modem are connected via ethernet to the access point 
> (which would work as a switch in this setup). Once this works and once you 
> also have successfully setup and tested(!) wlan connection with another 
> computer on your local network, you could try and replace the ethX with wlan0 
> in ifcfg-dsl0.
> 
> 
> Greetings from Bremen
> hartmut
>