Re: yast technical question (frustrating)

Hello,

your problem sounds to me like a duplicate/multiple assignment of network
configurations for one and the same ethernet card. This can happen, when
your network card doesn't start up properly, e.g. on a slow system or due
to a ressource conflict on BIOS level.

transnet@xxxxxxx wrote:

ok, well /etc/sysconfig/network has:
ifcfg-eth0
with ip addr 172.16.10.2 netmask 255.255.252.0 gateway 172.16.10.1

but YAST shows
ip addr 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1

so how is this possible?
there should be more in /etc/sysconfig

what does

#/etc/sysconfig/network> ls -1 *eth*

list up?

Really just eth0 or something like

ifcfg-eth-id-00:0b:6a:e6:85:ef
-------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is MY MAC ID

YaST refers its information out of /etc/sysconfig. The dialogues make
changes to this directory. When you finish YaST it runs a bunch of scripts
to update the true system configuration files.

So when you make changes to /etc/sysconfig be sure to run

#> SuSEconfig

afterwards. Otherwise your changes won't take effect. Btw, it doesn't hurt
to do it more than once. So feel free to try it out.

Now let's do something with it.

Since your network configuration of ethernet cards (eth*) is mixed up,
simply delete *eth* in /etc/sysconfig/network and do a SuSEconfig
afterwards.

Now you shouldn't have any ethernet card being configured any more.

Then reboot and ensure, that your card introduces itself with its MAC ID. If
not or sporadically not, you've got a ressource conflict to solve first
(e.g. by changing PCI slots). But that's beyond the scope of this NG.

Greetings
Tarper






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