The Sunday 2004-01-04 at 22:48 -0600, Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
I don't understand your point?
That SuSE must have designed it's scripts to work, and portables with network on pcmcia is a typical situation, so it has got to work, somehow. We must be looking at it the wrong way.
I would agree it should work.
Hotplug is not the only thing that doesn't work right. There is also a problem with the stability of wireless networking in SuSE.
I can't even try to duplicate your situation.
I don't know exactly where the problem lies yet but it seems to be with the DHCP client and how it sets the default route or the DNS entries.
There are also some entries on the SDB that might apply to your case.
I have been losing the default route and the DNS information at random intervals. I have had to constantly restart the network. Sometimes I would have to restart it four or five time in an hour.
In order to try and track the problem, two days ago I statically set all of the network information for the wireless card instead of getting it from the DHCP server in my router. Since then I have not lost the route - DNS - network connection one time.
Then perhaps there is a problem with the dhcp client - there are two you can choose from. I excerpt some text from the SuSE admin book: DHCP Software Packages Both a DHCP server and DHCP clients are available for SuSE Linux. The DHCP server available is dhcpd (published by the Internet Software Consortium). On the client side, you can choose between two different DHCP client programs: package dhclient (also from ISC) and the ``DHCP client daemon'' in the package dhcpcd package. SuSE Linux installs dhcpcd by default. The program is very easy to handle and will be launched automatically on each system boot to watch for a DHCP server. It does not need a configuration file to do its job and should work out of the box in most standard setups. For more complex situations, use the ISC dhclient, which is controlled by means of the configuration file /etc/dhclient.conf. Maybe the "other one" works for you. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson