Re: How can I set a network card to active....


eth0 is the fixed card, wlan0 the wireless. So either or both should get
an IP adress. If that is not the case: Yast, Network Devices, Network
card (Don't know if there is something for the wireless one). There you
have one or two cards.
Edit the one you want to use. Normaly this should be DHCP. If that does
not work, enter an IP adress and routing, depending on you local network
settings. Next and next again. You SHOULD now have an IP adress. As long
as you don't get an IP adress, it won't work. Look on another machine
(ipconfig on a Win machine) what the IP and settings are there.

Once you have an IP adress, see if you can get to the IP adress of your
router (ping IP.for.the.router) Naturaly the router should be able to
answer this, so try it (first) on a network that works.

Today i decided to reinstall SuSe so i can tackle your suggestions
from a clean install. I was messing with it yesterday so i wanted to
make sure my tamperings had no caused SuSe to not work with my card.

I followed your instructions and got up to the point where i try and
ping the router and the message i received was "Destination Host
Unreachable". If i try and log on to the router in a browser i get the
message "The connection was refused when attempting to contact
192.168.0.1".

This also happened when i ser the router to not act as a DHCP server.
The ipaddress i have in SuSe is one i manually set. The following is
the current replies when typing rcnetwork restart and further down
ifconfig. The reason eh0 does not have an ipaddress is only because
have not connected the cable. If connected that works perfectly with
no problems and is assigned an ipaddress by the router.

Thanks again for your help!

Engelktot

linux:/home/graham # rcnetwork restart

Shutting down network interfaces:
eth0 device: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815
(MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:03:0d:04:76:d7
done
wlan0 device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b
MAC (rev 20)
wlan0 configuration: wlan-id-00:09:5b:63:90:87
done
Shutting down service network . . . . . . . . . . . . .
done.
Hint: you may set mandatory devices in /etc/sysconfig/network/config
Setting up network interfaces:
lo
lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
done
eth0 device: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815
(MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:03:0d:04:76:d7
eth0 (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding.
waiting
wlan0 device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b
MAC (rev 20)
wlan0 configuration: wlan-id-00:09:5b:63:90:87
wlan0 warning: using NO encryption
ifup-wireless: command 'iwconfig wlan0 nick linux' returned
ifup-wireless: Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) :
ifup-wireless: SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not
permitted.
wlan0 IP address: 192.168.0.7/24
done
Setting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
done.


linux:/home/graham # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:0D:04:76:D7
inet6 addr: fe80::203:dff:fe04:76d7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:601 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:601 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:60780 (59.3 Kb) TX bytes:60780 (59.3 Kb)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:63:90:87
inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fe63:9087/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:862 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:768 (768.0 b) TX bytes:88706 (86.6 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Memory:f136e000-f136e100



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