On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 18:47, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2004-01-03 at 23:13 -0600, Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
Theoretically, the pcmcia script should start its network part automatically.
That should be /etc/hotplug/net.*
In theory. In practice however, hotplug fails miserably. I have installed both 8.2 and 9.0 on two laptops and one of my co-workers has installed both versions on his laptop and in all cases PCMCIA fails to get a network connection on boot.
Hotplug seems to work for USB devices but thats all.
Mmm. Unfortunately, I don't have a portable at the moment, so I can't test it. On SuSE 7.3 I got it working, two years ago.
Now all we have to worry about is SuSE updating the init scripts. :-)
I think it must be designed to work diferently that what you are thinking about :-)
I don't understand your point?
That SuSE must have designed it's scripts to work, and portables with network on pcmcia is a typical situation, so it has got to work, somehow. We must be looking at it the wrong way.
I would agree it should work.
Hotplug is not the only thing that doesn't work right. There is also a
problem with the stability of wireless networking in SuSE.
I don't know exactly where the problem lies yet but it seems to be with
the DHCP client and how it sets the default route or the DNS entries.
I have been losing the default route and the DNS information at random
intervals. I have had to constantly restart the network. Sometimes I
would have to restart it four or five time in an hour.
In order to try and track the problem, two days ago I statically set all
of the network information for the wireless card instead of getting it
from the DHCP server in my router. Since then I have not lost the route
- DNS - network connection one time.
<soapbox>
Until I loaded SuSE two months ago, I had been running Mandrake Linux,
(7.2, 8.0, 8.2, 9.0), with the same wireless network hardware I'm using
now, on my laptops for three years. In all that time I *never* had a
problem with losing my network connection.
The fact that Novell announced their intention to purchase SuSE is what
prompted me to try SuSE Linux. Novell has long had a reputation for
building solid products. It is my hope that with Novell's support, the
SuSE developers will be able to build a SOLID Linux distribution that
will make all other Linux distributions seem like beta software
including my favorite Mandrake.
</soapbox>
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Chuck Stuettgen