my gut instinct is that when SuSE looked at your Asante card, it said 'ok, i know how to use that', but your dhcp client is trying to use the built-in ethernet jacks.
I agree that the system is probably seeing and using the on-board ethernet first.
you may need to edit your startup configuration file ( /etc/init.d/networking) to change this.
This is a bad place to put local system setups. The interfaces are configured with the files
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
The directory sysconfig [nor nothing remotely like it] exists there.
Since I didn't have any success there, what I did do was go back into YaST2 to try configuring LAN again. What I did there was delete the entries for the existing setup and configured both the onboard and the PCI card again.
Hitting finish tried to start the network on both interfaces. The onboard was not plugged in, so DHCP failed there, the PCI card was plugged in but DHCP also failed there. I sad and watched the LEDs on the card. No action on either TX or RX.
So then I pulled the cable from the PCI card and put it on the onboard. I figured if I could get success there it may shed some light.
Guess what? It worked ... but not really. I received no errors when it was configuring, however, neither interface turns up as "Active" and I still can't ping in or out.
So ... where should I be looking for what? Oh and I am currently not booting the 2.4 kernel but the 2.2.4 I believe.
Spose I can boot either ... I am new enough to this that I do not know the advantages to the 2.4 version.
David
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