[driverloader] suse 9.0 on Gateway 450xl

[John Madden]

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On (02/11/03 23:46), Philipp Grafe didst pronounce:
> #iwconfig
> eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"Wireless Home "  Nickname:"unknown"
>           Mode:Managed  Access Point: 00:09:5B:35:D9:FC  Bit Rate=11Mb/s
>           RTS thr=1600 B   Fragment thr=2304 B
>           Encryption key:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:1/1  Signal level:-28 dBm  Noise level:-200 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
Seems fine.
> 
> # ifconfig -a
> eth1      Protokoll:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 00:04:23:51:26:36
>           BROADCAST 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
>           Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:100
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
The card hasn't been brought up yet. You need to tell it to use DHCP or
give it a static ip address.

I don't autoload either my NIC (Intel Pro/100) or my WLAN (Intel
Pro/Wireless 2100) at boot because I'm constantly switching between
them. I've got both set to use DHCP because I also constantly move
between networks (home and college).

I don't know how to set this up in Suse, but I presume it's some file in
/etc (possibly /etc/networks or something similar). In that file, remove
the autoload eth0 line, and add iface eth1 inet dhcp. Then, when you
boot the box, modprobe driverloader && ifup eth1 and see what happens.

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Chat ya later,

John.
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