On Saturday 10 February 2007 12:51, Richard Cromi wrote:
> Installed openSUSE 10.2, dual-booting with Windows XP. Installation was
> fine with no errors.
>
> I cannot connect to Internet when using SUSE. Motherboard has two onboard
> NICs.
>
> In YaST, Network Cards, both NICs are detected and configured with same
> settings, showing as eth-bus devices 0 and 1. Both are set to be enabled
> on boot. Have tried setting them as Internal and External devices.
> Ifconfig only displays eth2 and the loopback interfaces. There isn't an
> eth2 device installed, so I don't know where this is coming from and eth2
> doesn't display in YaST. Cable modem is connected to eth1.
>
> I'd like to have both Ethernet ports working, but at this point would
> settle for just one that can pick up its DHCP address and connect to the
> Internet.
>
> Any ideas?
> TIA
>
> Richard Cromi
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
someone (at suse ?) thought it would be cute to increment ethxx numbers in a
system as they are installed!!!!just to make it even more crazy, they keep it
secret from yast and do not cross check if a particular mac address has been
assigned already!!!!!!
so, first delete all nics found in yast and exit the nic setup routine. then
open the file "/etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistant_names.rules" and clobber
all the eth assignments. save the file, go back to yast, install your nics
and enjoy real eth numbers and working network cards.
i wish i knew more about it, but i do not know what script(s?) does the dirty
deed or why. someone should treat it as a bug, because it can drive someone
crazy when he/she removes and reinstalls a nic and the eth--no gets
incremented each time!!!
this has helped me a couple of times, i hope it helps you too:)
d.
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