* Brian Carver <bwcarver@earthlink.net> [May 01. 2002 10:37]:
Hi,
I may have to call/e-mail SuSE on this, but before I tried that I thought I'd ask here. I've installed 8.0 on a Sony PCG-F370 laptop with not much trouble. The problem is that it doesn't seem to like my D-Link PCMCIA network card, and so I can't get the laptop on the internet (via my home lan). The laptop connects fine when in Windoze 98, so hardware issues are mostly ruled out.
After boot-up ifconfig shows that only the local loopback 127.0.0.1 is up and eth0 isn't even listed. If I do 'ifconfig eth0 up' then it will
Have you read how we redesigned network setup? (Try ifup eth0 instead of using ifconfig) http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mmj_network80.html There's also http://sdb.suse.de/cgi-bin/sdbsearch_en.cgi?stichwort=80+pcmcia -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.