Or try as root: bash>ifconfig eth0 up bash>ifconfig Yast2 should be able to setup the init scripts for you if you setup your network base configuration. What type of network is this attempting to connect to? If it is attempting to dhcp and it doesn't find a IP, it may not bring the interface up. You can specify a static IP to get around that. Jonathan Paul Cowherd Linux and Java Administrator Genscape, Inc. Email: jonathan.cowherd@genscape.com Office: (502) 583-3730 Mobile: (502) 314-0444 -----Original Message----- From: Herman L. Knief [mailto:herman@knief.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:00 PM To: Jay Vollmer Cc: SuSE Linux English Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 8.1 on dual PIII with EEpro100 If you do an lspci, does the card show up? - Herman On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Jay Vollmer wrote: ->jvollmer@visi.com -> ->> What actual driver are you using? The old eepro100 or the newer ->> e100 (from Intel)? ->> - Herman ->> >I've just installed 8.1 on a dual PIII box with an EEpro100 NIC. ->> >The NIC doesn't want to configure. I'm about to swap it out, but ->> >wondered if it might be a driver issue on a dual CPU system. Does ->> >anyone know? ->> > ->> >Of course, the possiblility exists that that I won't see your ->> >response until I've swapped the NIC - which might render the issue ->> >moot. But I wonder anyway. -> ->The card is an EEpro100+ and is correctly detected. I've tried the ->eepro driver as well as the e100 driver. /sbin/ifconfig eth0 still ->says I've got no interface. -> -> -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com