Clive Eisen schrieb:
> 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?
Are you uptodate with the updates ?

There was a bug in some conditions with DHCP servers and hostnames.

André