appears that you were right, after all. after getting all types of network stats before starting yast, it became clear that the card wasn't enabled at all. he then managed to fix his modules according to instructions he found somewhere else, so now it's working. :)
-- phani.
Ok, that was how things were, but I just got the problem solved. I checked lsmod before using yast to start the ehternet card to see what modules were loaded. Then I checked lsmod after starting the ethernet card, and I found that the r8169 module was loaded, but not the r8101 module. I removed r8169 yesterday, but it was back again, and r8101 was gone. I removed r8169 using rmmod r8169, but it came back shortly afterwards. So I added the comment blacklist r8169 to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. Then I removed r8169 again using rmmod r8169 and it went away. Then, I added the following to /etc/modprobe.conf ########################################################################################### #replacement network driver ########################################################################################### alias eth0 r8101 Then,I recompiled the r8101 module per the instructions in the readme file. I next made sure that my modifications from yesterday to the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 were still there, and they were. They read: DEVICE='eth0' BOOTPROTO='dhcp' ONBOOT='yes' Voila, the network card connects to the internet as soon as the computer boots up. Hi, I've been thinking about this and trying to figure out why the r8101 module went away. I did some updates on the computer after I got the ethernet card to work, and one of them required that I reboot the computer. I expect that must have been a kernel update, and that may be why I had to reinstall the r8101 kernel module. Now that I have blacklisted the default r8169 kernel module that comes preinstalled in the linux kernel, how may I keep the r8101 module without having to recompile it and reinstall it every time there is a kernel update? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org