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* John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> [12-04-14 15:48]:
On 12/04/2014 11:38 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
tks much, guess the secret is gateway and fixed ip. What happens when I travel and use, say HolidayInn's network. Have to again use a fixed or same fixed ip and gateway ???
Seriously, don't you think EVERYONE would be howling if that was the case? You seem to be on the Lynn-route (Sorry Lynn) of compounding problems due to an excess of hacking in partial fixes in the wrong place.
Your DHCP client should work, and it should set the gateway, the broadcast, the name servers for you. These problems were all solved somewhere around 1984. GET THAT working and you will be able to stop all this silly hacking in of manual IPs.
Why does your dhclient not work?
The apparently it never has. I presently have three wireless connections locally from openSUSE boxes/laptops that all failed on initial setup/install to connect using NM, so being more familiar with if{up,down,in-th-middle}, I changed using yast{network}. What is and how to test, the problem with dhclient? I have not experienced this previous. tks, ps: I do not take the "Lynn-route" (also sorry) but follow the main route excepting the use of some non=standard repos for items I require. But don't we all do so? ps2: Having never been able to use NM and always being successful with ifup, I had no need before to worry about NM, and haven't. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org