Thom Paine wrote:
Greetings list.
I am new to Suse coming from RedHat and Fedora. I've had a few issues with Fedora and RedHat has changed their business model, so I thought I would give Suse a try.
I successfully installed personal 9.1 on my laptop, however I'm having trouble with the wireless nic on it. The install process detected it but I'm not sure how to activate it when I want to use it. On my old system I could just ifup eth1 from a command prompt, and that now gives me an error about no config found for eth1. ifup wlan-bus-pcmcia gives me a different error, but still doesn't get me connected.
So, that being said, where should I start as a user switching distros? Any good docs I could read to help me get the swing of things on the switchover while I test this out?
Thanks.
-=/>Thom
Look in /etc/sysconfig/network, for the devices SuSE knows about. You'll see stuff like ifcfg-eth-id-00:00:e2:8a:26:aa or ifcfg-wlan-id-00:20:e0:8a:a6:ce, which will be your NIC and WiFi. You then use commands like ifup wlan-id-00:20:e0:8a:a6:ce or ifdown ifcfg-eth-id-00:00:e2:8a:26:aa. It's preferable to use that form, as you may find that eth0 or eth1 doesn't always refer to the same device.