On Jun 9, 2:09 pm, "[email protected]" <[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?
Did you have the internet plugged in and set up when you did the
install ?
I use Debian NetInstall CD which is a small initial download and the
first thing it does is to set up the internet -- won't install by this
method if it doesn't work then and forces the setup correctly by
asking you for the info it needs if it needs.
Like the guy below says you can check with ifconfig, in fact you can
start the interface with it too.
If it checks OK already you might try the command "dhclient eth0" and
then try "ping google.com"
another thing to check is in the boot messages -- however with a
desktop installed you don't usually see like in OSX -- but in Linux
you can see by typing the command "dmesg | more" in a terminal window
-- there you can see if the card is seen at all. If not then you don't
have a driver in your kernel and you are probably in trouble. Although
sometimes for some reason there is a driver which has not loaded
(right now with my powerbook on debian I have to load the sound driver
by hand ...) ...
let us know what you see ?
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