Istvan Gabor wrote:
Thank you Per.
I have this in /etc/sysconfig/network:
# ls -l /etc/sysconfig/network total 80 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10797 2012-10-04 20:31 config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6273 2012-10-03 19:21 dhcp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183 2010-10-25 18:39 ifcfg-dsl0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184 2012-10-05 14:18 ifcfg-eth0
Ok, those were the two interesting ones.
# ifup eth0 eth0 device: nVidia Corporation CK8S Ethernet Controller (rev a2) eth0 Startmode is 'off' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That seems weird, isn't this your normal ethernet interface? I would expect it to have Startmode="auto" ?
# ifup dsl0 dsl0 name: DSL Connection interface dsl0 is up
kinternet tries to connect but can't. ifconfig still gives:
# ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:35975 (35.1 Kb) TX bytes:35975 (35.1 Kb)
I'm not very familiar with running DSL on a local device (I've only ever used a separate DSL router/modem), but I would expect some kind of point-to-point interface, probably pppoe0 - maybe a dsl0 interface too.
A googled in the meantime and found this:
http://ca.huji.ac.il/services/internet/connect/adsl/pppoe_linux.shtml
This says:
"Although PPPoE does not require an IP address to be set for your Ethernet adapter some distributions may not initialize the adapter without it." I guess this applies to openSUSE as well. I assigned a statical IP address/subnet mask (10.200.1.1 /255.0.0.0) to the network card in yast and after rebooting the card was configured and network connection worked. Is there a drawback of assigning a static IP address? Might it be a bug that prevents network setup when no IP address is set for the card?
I think you have quite likely hit a bug, I don't think this part of YaST has been tested much. I remember trying to get a pppoe setup to work with IPv6 maybe two years ago, the whole thing seemed a little flaky to me. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org