On 8/23/05, John Pugh <jpugh@novell.com> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 8:03 am, in message
> <620c905705082305032bce2818@mail.gmail.com>, wchast@gmail.com wrote:
> > Folks,
> > I seem to be seeing the same issue I saw with SuSE 9.1, but unlike
> 9.1
> > which just would NOT work, it is a hit or miss.
> >
> > When I first installed 9.3, it came up and found my gateway and
> pulled
> > the DNS addresses into resolv.conf, this appeared to be fixed, as I
> could
> > re- boot and it was still getting all of the pertinent data.
> >
> > Last weekend I had to go do a demo at the County EOC, I fire up my
> > laptop into Linux and no connection, resolv.conf was empty, and
> there
> > was not a gateway found in the routes. So I have to go in and
> manually
> > add this stuff.
> >
> > Does anyone know why this is such a flake?? All else works just
> fine,
> > but the setting up of the gw and the DNS stuff.
> >
> > This is a toshiba laptop with a internal 802.11 card, I am wondering
> if
> > this is due to the fact that the 802.11 card setup is being defered,
> or if
> > it is due to the fact that it is trying to set up things on the
> ethernet
> > card first and then fails but by the time it has failed and tried to
> do the
> > 802.11 device some of the other stuff has timed out and left it high
> and
> > dry. At times it does not even get a DHCP assignment.
> >
> > In general the 9.3 install went well though there were some
> interesting
> > differences from 9.1, the most outstanding was the fact that I no
> longer
> > had access to the NTFS partition nor the VFAT partition as a common
> > user, on 9.1 it gave me that without having to be root. Beyond that
> much
> > else appears to be quite good.
> >
> > I really need to get this networking issue resolved as it is ugly to
> have to
> > go in and add that stuff when it does not come up correctly, and at
> times
> > I do not KNOW what the local gw is for a given network, nor the dns,
> so
> > that is even more reason to get it working. At least on 9.1 it would
> get the
> > gw setup, so I had hard entries to the dns that I use at home,
> perhaps not
> > so fast depending on where I was but I never had to go in and setup
> the
> > gw initially either.
>
> First - is the update dns via dhcp box checked for your wireless card?
> We had problems with 9.1 and updates when disconnected, but that was
> fixed with 9.2. Not sure if there is another "issue" at play here. I
> don't have the problem with 9.2 (it's NLD, but the same) - I start with
> eth0 connected and wireless disconnected and then switch with netapplet
> when necessary. Very possibly a driver issue, but I would rule out other
> things first.
I am looking at it, I assume that I use YaST for this, but I do not see a check
box for update dns via dhcp. Perhaps I am looking at the wrong place?
In my home where I use it most of the time, I use wireless, in order to get
to a wired connection I have to go out in the garage.
>
> Do you need to setup the fstab entry to include "users" since by
> default root is the only one to have access and it was setup by
> "someone" at some point - it only does what you tell it to do - it's a
> computer!
Hmm, here is my fstab file
/dev/hda4 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda3 swap swap pri=42 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/playbox vfat
defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=027,utf8
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs
noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
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