On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 20:35 +0300, HG wrote:
Hi!
On 10/22/05, Jerry Feldman
wrote: I just installed 10 on my laptop at home (using a static IP through a Linksys box), tested both DHCP and Wireless, set up multiple profiles. Upon arrival at my hotel, the system came up, connected to their internal network with no problem. I also configured a local printer
I more or less (what do you mean by multiple profiles) did the same. Except, that I had DHCP at home and now at my parents place nothing (i.e. cable and WLAN) works with DHCP even though in windows it all works (with the exact same DHCP and laptop). I have no idea on how to get it to work as it just worked at my home. I thought this networks stuff was very well covered on linux, but currently it seems that windows is again years ahead. I keep on rebooting this linux system and hoping that after some reboot it would start to work. In YaST everything seems the same as I've always had (DHCP-everything). I really do not know which buttons to push anymore, I'm quite disappointed.
Just because you do not know which buttons to push does not make linux behind the times as far as networking goes. linux has always had better networking then MS -ever- will. Rebooting multiple times will not change a configuration, that is something you need to learn how to do. YaST-->Network Devices-->select your card in the lower area and then click on the change button. Highlight your card (you may only have one) and then click on the edit button. Under "Setup Method" select DHCP Click on Routing-->fill in the IP address of your router as the Default Gateway. Click on the Next button and then the Finish Button. Your networking should now work, if not let us know so that we can help you further. You may have to make some changes for your DNS servers and your Hostname/Domain Name. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998