[ltp] R40e SuSE 8.2 lost network

[Mark Houlder]

you could try opening Yast2, going to network devices and deleting the 
card in the setup panel. save that and exit, then go back in and add it 
in again - that should wipe any problematic settings (unless your card 
wasn't auto-detected when you installed suse in which case it might be 
more trouble than it's worth, but i've never had a problem with ethernet 
for 8.1/8.2/9.0 on several different computers, so it should be ok).

also check that the 'network' tasks are running in the runlevel editor - 
iirc the dhcp client is one of the processes that depends on that. 
another thing to note is that there are two choices of dhcp client in 
suse8.2, i forget what the alternative is but it's detailed in 
susehelpcenter, would be worth a shot if all else fails.

suse9 is an improvement over 8.2, but not by much; from what i can see 
the network setup is exactly the same so unless there are changes under 
the hood i wouldn't bother. you could see if there are any online 
updates for the network packages on the suse site, though.


Adrian Midgley wrote:

>On Sunday 25 January 2004 17:52, James Knott wrote:
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>>Did you try releasing then restarting dhcp?
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>Yes.
>Owner has some exams and can use XP for a while so nothing will happen for a 
>day or two.
>I've asked for the files and commands suggested.
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>It is SuSE 8.2 with the Broadcom Ethernet driver from that company and one of 
>the regrettably WIndows-like things I have contemplated is taking it to SuSE 
>9 - but I'd like to work out just what ailed it.
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