Technicality.... Yast calls SuSEconfig which in turn does the damage....
Avi
--On Wednesday, March 07, 2001 19:39:59 -0800 Michael Hasenstein
Avi Schwartz wrote:
Well, Yast1 decided to drive me nuts. It keeps screwing up my pcmcia network settings!
The story:
My laptop has a built-in ethernet adapter which I use at work. At work I get the IP address via DHCP.
At home, I use a wireless PCMCIA adapter. In this case, I use a fixed IP.
What happens is that if I run YAST while at work (i.e. installing a new package), it goes and changes the SEARCH, DNS_1 and DNS_2 entries in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file. It leaves all other settings intact (IP, GW, etc.) This means that when I get home, I have to edit the file and fix it.
Why would YAST touch the pcmcia information when it knows that eth0 is NOT pcmcia (as I entered in the network card set up screen)?
Yast does not touch ANY file.
See /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.pcmcia for what's happening.
-- Avi Schwartz Get a Life, avi@CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux!