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Old 26-Sep-2006, 14:18
Clive Eisen
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Default Re: Ethernet not working under SUSE 10.1

brian.james@ngc.com wrote:
> I have a dual-boot SUSE 10.1 / Windows system. The Ethernet connection
> works fine under Windows, but fails under SUSE 10.1.
>
> I suspect the issue has something to do with the way DHCP is assigning an
> IP. Router is 192.168.1.1 and DHCP correctly returns 192.168.1.102 under
> Windows, but (oddly enough) DHCP returns 169.254.38.51 under SUSE.
>
> Have played around with various DHCP settings and pinged my SUSE from
> another computer to no avail. However, when I downgrade to SUSE 9.1 I can
> get the NIC working.
>
> Would appreciate any advise so I can finally dump Windows.
>
>

Crystal ball is a bit cloudy here

Can we have some hardware details, in particular what nic?