On Jun 9, 2009, at 2:09 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> After trying various distros I now have Open SUSE 11 running on my
> G4 450
> Mhz - once I formatted the partition to Unix it all installed
> smoothly.
> However, on attempting to set up broadband I find that my ethernet
> is not
> set up. It works fine on Tiger, but I would like to use linux on a
> separate
> partition to my main software and files for my net access. I picked
> up that
> there were issues with SUSE and ethernet for the beige G3 - is this
> the case
> with SUSE 11/G4's, and is there a fix a nonce can implement?
I wouldn't expect it to have any trouble. I haven't tried SUSE but I
have got Fedora 10 & 11, Debian 5 and YDL 5 running on various
machines and none have had trouble with wired Ethernet. I do have a
Wallstreet that I haven't been able to get a WiFi card working on but
it's wired connection is okay.
How is it being set up, DHCP or static. On some of the distros you
can use either Network Manager or not (I don't recall the name of the
other method) to configure network interfaces. Sometimes you end up
with neither method doing the configuring.
Try doing "ifconfig" in a shell to see how it is set up. Post the
results here. You are specifically looking for "eth0" or something
like that. You can ignore the "lo" entries. (You may need root
access to run ifconfig).
It should look something like:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:02:7c:9f:b2
inet addr:192.168.2.181 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:
255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::205:2ff:fe7c:9fb2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:963 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:718798 (701.9 KiB) TX bytes:87721 (85.6 KiB)
Interrupt:42 Base address:0xc000
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