Thanks Patrick, however that doesn't me if the cat 5 cable is connected or not. For example, if the computer has six nics and i have only one cabled, Yast will show which one is connected and I can set up setup that nic with an IP address. I am looking for a way in the command, prior to assigning IP addresses to the nics, which nic is cabled and connect to a network.
Many thanks,
James
Mine shows Rx & Tx packets, doesn't yours? ~~~~~~~ Well, here is the issue; from a Rescue session I need to assign an address to a nic that is actually connected to the network. Running ifconfig only shows only 'lo' until I assign an address to an eth* device. Afterwards, ifconfig will show eth0, for example, if that is the nic i added the address to. I could go and add an address to eth0, ping the network, if it fails remove the IP and add it to eth1, ping the network, and so on until I find the the live nic. I am looking for something a little more efficient. Since Yast shows if a nic is connected or not I am assuming that is using a command that shows the connection status of the nics. Any idea what command(s) that may be? Thanks again, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org