I am having a problem setting up a new 8.1 installation. I am
installing on a supermicro dual Xeon board with 2 on board ethernet
controllers. One is an Intel EE Pro 100 and the other is an Intel
gigabit interface. I've disabled the gigabit interface via jumper so
as to reduce the variables (although I've tried that interface too).
I did a fresh install of SUSE 8.1. YAST2 correctly finds the
EtherExpress PRO/100 S Server Adapter. I've set a static IP and
entered the hostname, name servers and default router. The box cannot
ping out or be pinged. It can ping itself using the static IP.
sboker@datran6:~/ncaa/GPAcalc02b> ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) from 192.168.1.12 : 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.12: icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
I'm using a known good cable, known good switch and known good router.
I have a working SUSE 6.2 box on the same network, so I looked at all
of its configurations options in YAST2, removed its PCI NIC, disabled
the Supermicro onboard ethernet and installed the (again EE Pro/100)
NIC into the Supermicro. All YAST2 settings were correct based on the
other working box, and I get exactly the same symptoms with the known
good NIC.
Back with the Supermicro onboard ethernet, I ask for ifinfo on eth0.
Here is what I get. I'm unfamiliar with the output of ifinfo, but the
last line looks fishy to me.
sboker@datran6:~/ncaa/GPAcalc02b> /sbin/ifstatus eth0
eth0 is up
2: eth0: