I managed to set up the new laptop with Suse 9 last night, rebooted, and thought that I was going to start personalizing things.
When the machine fired up, however, there was no networking and no internet. When I check dhcp, it is running (changing to a static address does not make any difference). I can ping 127.0.0.1, but pinging outside of the network returns nothing. When I type ifup eth0, among the other output, I get an "inet addr:0.0.0.0" and "RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:12 overruns:0 frame:0" I went through and made sure that module.conf has "alias sis900 eth0" but that didn't make any difference. After Googling around for a bit on my other machine, I figured out that the network card in the Aspire 1700 (a sis900 10/100) apparently doesn't play well with SMP enabled kernels. While I still have lots more Googling and reading to do, I wanted to ask and see if anyone here had ideas on how to handle this situation. Is it a good idea to disable SMP in the new kernel (the laptop only has one processor, but will SMP effect more than that)? Would it be better to try and find a patch so I can keep SMP? Does the 2.6 kernel fix this problem? I would try one of the test kernels, but this machine is going to be a primary workhorse and I cannot afford to have instability. Any ideas that might point me in the direction of a fix would be greatly appreciated. A far less disturbing issue with the install is that there is no sound either. I do not know if the two issues are related, so I figured I would add it just in case. ------------------------ Jason Hayes - Principal Hayes Holdings Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.hayz.ws Blog: www.hayz.ws/blog #1936 - 246 Stewart Green SW Calgary, AB, Canada T3H 3C8 ------------------------ _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
