On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 18:57, P C wrote:
Hello,
I recently installed SUSE 9.0 on my machine, it has 2 ethernet cards. Only one of them (eth1) is connected to the LAN. Everytime I start my computer, to be able to connect to the network, I need to go to YAST -> network devices and reconfigure the network cards. What I usually end up doing is, say both NICs are configured then I remove eth0 from the configuration, and hit finish. And boom I can connect to the network. Now the next I start my machine, I will go to YAST and it will show me only eth1 is configured. In that case I will have to add the eth0 card, i configure that as being dynamic and hit finish. So now i have 2 cards configured and now I am able to connect to the network.
So essentially every time i restart my computer I add or remove the eth0 card from the configuration. Any ideas as to why this happens?
Well, I would doubt that its your changes to eth0 that is fixing the problem. I would guess that when you reconfigure, eth1 gets reinitialized. When you say you are "unable to connect to the network," what exactly do you mean? That can mean anything from "the driver module isn't loaded, so the system doesn't know the card is there" to "DNS isn't working, so I can't open any web sites." What does ifconfig as root from a command prompt tell you about eth1? If the interface isn't up, can you bring it up by doing "ifup eth1" as root on the command line? If it is up, can you ping the IP address of that card? Can you ping the gateway? (If you're not sure what I'm talking about here, just post again and I'll go into more detail.)