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I have an older pc that I installed Suse 9.0 on. But the Ethernet card was not configured automatically. The card is a D-Link DFE-530TX. How can find out what ...
  1. 10-22-2006 #1
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    How can I setup Ethernet card manually

    I have an older pc that I installed Suse 9.0 on. But the Ethernet card was not configured automatically. The card is a D-Link DFE-530TX. How can find out what my IP address is to configure the card manually, in yast and is there anything else I need to know?
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    Do you use DHCP or do you have a static IP? Do you use cable, dsl...?

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    Use YaST, if you don't use DHCP you probably need to set your ip manually from YaST.

    You can also use "ifconfig"
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    ifconfig eth0 <your ip here> netmask <your netmask here>
    Set some nameserver on /etc/resolv.conf
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    pico /etc/resolv.conf

Add some DNSs in this format

nameserver  <the ip>
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    One more thing I thought of...does Suse recognize your card? Is the module built into the 9.0 kernel and is it loaded at boot?

    Any reason you are using 9.0 (it's pretty old)?

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    Thanks ifconfig showed me everything that I needed.
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    Thanks for the help. I had to manually setup my IP address in yast, everything is working. To answer your question about why I am using Suse 9.0. I thought 10.1 would be to much of a memory hog. I only have 256MB on this system. This is just a old computer of mine that I thought I would use to get to know Linux with.
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