Is everyone else's laptop cruising the internet on 8.0 just fine and it's only my PCMCIA card that I can't get working? Can someone point me to a list that might be able to address this problem? The PCMCIA HOWTO at: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.3 says "If you get ``Network is unreachable'' messages when you try to access the network, then the routing information specified in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts is incorrect. This exact message is an absolutely foolproof indication of a routing error. On the other hand, mis-configured cards will usually fail silently." I'm getting this message and so I checked my network.opts. It has an early section like this: # !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! USE_SUSE_NETWORK_SETUP=yes # !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! and then gives a sample setup file. So, it looks like SuSE is doing something "NEW" here and I wondered if anyone knows if I can just set that to "no" and try to figure out what options to select in network.opts the old way. Below is the transcript of my woes just getting this laptop on the internal network, which still hasn't happened. The SuSE page describing the new system doesn't really make sense to me, but one thing I noticed is that I don't even have a /etc/sysconfig/network/routes file. I tried reading about the routes file to see if I could create one, but I don't understand what goes in that first column called "Destination". I'm probably just going to hopelessly ruin the setup if I keep blindly trying things. Anyone with some decent advice would be greatly appreciated. Brian W. Carver wrote:
Still can't get PCMCIA network card to do anything on 8.0, but I did manage to get some new errors, so here's an update. (Please help!)
ifup eth0 still says "No configuration found for eth0" but since I have a file called ifcfg-eth-pcmcia-0 I thought I'd try instead "ifup eth-pcmcia-0" to see what would happen. When I did that I got: "ifup: Could not get a valid interface name: -> skipped"
It's a DLINK DFE 650 card and works fine in Windoze.
Also on start-up my xconsole has these two lines:
cardmgr[546]: config error, file 'config.add_kernel' line 322: unknown device: 8139too
and
ifup: No configuration found for eth-pcmcia-1 eth0
which made me think to try "ifup eth-pcmcia-0 eth0" and then it finally said Starting DHCP Client Daemon on eth0... . . . . . . . no IP address yet...backgrounding.
I've waited a few minutes and pinging the server still gets me: "Network is unreachable"
Any ideas?
Brian W. Carver wrote:
When I do ifup eth0 it says "No configuration found for eth0".
Which file is it missing?
In /etc/sysconfig/network I have:
config dhcp ifcfg-eth-pcmcia-0 ifcfg-lo ifcfg.template providers (dir) scripts (dir) wireless
The one that looks promising to me is ifcfg-eth-pcmcia-0. Here's what it says:
BOOTPROTO="dhcp" DHCLIENT_SET_DOWN_LINK="yes" STARTMODE="hotplug" UNIQUE=" " device="eth-pcmcia-0"
Any ideas?
Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
* Brian Carver
[May 01. 2002 10:37]: Hi,
I may have to call/e-mail SuSE on this, but before I tried that I thought I'd ask here. I've installed 8.0 on a Sony PCG-F370 laptop with not much trouble. The problem is that it doesn't seem to like my D-Link PCMCIA network card, and so I can't get the laptop on the internet (via my home lan). The laptop connects fine when in Windoze 98, so hardware issues are mostly ruled out.
After boot-up ifconfig shows that only the local loopback 127.0.0.1 is up and eth0 isn't even listed. If I do 'ifconfig eth0 up' then it will
Have you read how we redesigned network setup? (Try ifup eth0 instead of using ifconfig)
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mmj_network80.html
There's also
http://sdb.suse.de/cgi-bin/sdbsearch_en.cgi?stichwort=80+pcmcia