[TriLUG] Problems with SuSE 9.3 on IBM Laptop

nroskam nroskam at nc.rr.com
Tue Aug 16 21:20:23 EDT 2005


unctux wrote:

>>On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:03:02 -0400 "David B. Rankin" <drankin at nc.rr.com>
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>>All,
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>>I am having networking problems with SuSE 9.3 and a old IBM Thinkpad. 
>>I've tried three different PC cards (IBM, D-Link and 3Com) with the same 
>>results. SuSE appears to install and configure the PC Card properly but 
>>never gets a DHCP address.  ifup-dhcp eth0 says ".....no IP address 
>>yet....backgrounding."
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>>A closer look at ifconfig shows:
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>>RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:551
>>TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0
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>>Can anybody point me in the right direction to start troubleshooting?
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>What kind of ibm laptop is this. typically ibm tends to use intel or
>broadcom cards.
>MICHAEL MASSEY
>BIOS TEST DEPT
>IBM/LENOVO
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>Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.
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When I was using pc cards and suse 9.0 there was a bug where you had to 
modprobe the yenta module by hand to force it to load.



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