Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

[td@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

anybody here aware of this?

I am using some DLink DGE-500T Gigabit NICs based on the
ns chip. With Suse Linux 9.3 a fatal problem surfaces.

Installing Suse 9.3 from scratch invokes the network
configuration via Yast and it's scripts.
This fails miserably with freezing the system. Doing all
config work by hand makes the system work as usual.
However, changing any sysconfig parameter via Yast
(literally anything that touches the network stuff)
that makes Yast start the scripts related to networking
freezes the system. Only pulling the plug helps...

I did some further checks and figured, that the problem
already existed in Suse Linux 9.2 Professional. It's
nonexistent in Suse Linux 9.1.
I found no problems in using other distributions like 
Mandrake, Fedora or Knoppix. So I believe there is a
communications breakdown between Yast and the driver..?

Any hints?

best regs

td


As a side note:

Unfortunately, Suse Support is quite ignorant and
behaves like a black hole.
I filed two requests via their website [20050409430000676]
and [20050411990000065]. One they can't find anymore.
The other was forward to their office in England (the guy
on the phone in Nuremberg told me because I filed
it in English..! Which is what they request on their
website as a favor to their international staff (!?)).
The UK office has closed the ticket without further
investigation... (Probably because it came from Germany!?).