Can't connect with static IP on wired network

[ab@novell.com]

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Run:

yast lan

or

yast2 lan

Configure your networking to be static and on subsequent boots it should
stay that way.

Good luck.





finstro wrote:
> MY FAULT
>
> Title that I gave to this thread is confused. It should be "Can't *get
> to boot* with static IP on wired network".
>
> I HAVE access to Internet, with static or dynamic IP, but *I want to
> boot with static IP* and change this situation thru KDE menus. Is it
> possible?
>
> Sorry my terrible english, this must be the problem in this thread.
>
> Best regards and THANK YOU ab
>
>
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[lwfinger]

Why are you so hostile? You come to the forum with a problem and get
some questions from a _VOLUNTEER_, who asks you to supply necessary
information. You fail to do so, and get upset because you were asked.

We give a lot of leeway on this list because many people are not
comfortable with English. I don't know if that is your problem, or not.

I know perfectly well how to configure static IPs for wired
interfaces. If I help you, are you willing to follow instructions, or
not? If I get the same kind of runaround that Akoellh got, I will drop
you as well!

[finstro]

Hi again

First of all, THANKS AGAIN, ab, for your last reply. I'm not right now on that computer, so I will try your guidelines tonight and I will tell you my results. That's what I call to try to solve a user question.

In second place, lwfinger, I think you are being corporativist judging me as "hostile". As you can read in previous post of Akoellh, he wrote an unfortunate phrase like this
"Wouldn't it be a little more logical you start posting decent information about your setup?"
I think I was being totally "logical" and the information I posted was enough to solve "decently" my question. Is a right of a volunteer to call me "illogical" and to judge "indecent" information that I posted?. I think that is not correct, at all.

I even gave him my apoligies if I didn't make my question correctly.

I must to thank you for your sincerity and good words. It was not my intention to despise help of anyone, of course, but I help in forums too (in english too) like MediaPortal or OpenOffice, and I NEVER question the logical way of a user on doing something, because that user is ASKING for help, not to doubt about his logical or not logical way of make things. If he thought my info were not sufficient, simply ASK ME for that info, it's not necessary to write that is not "decent".

Sorry if you don't like my reasoning, but it's sincere like yours.

I will be very gratefull to you for any help about my question, and cause I'm sure you will treat me like what I'm here: A person asking for help, not to be judged for anyone.

Best regards

[Akoellh]

You don't know the most basic rule, don't you?

NEVER quote people out of context, or they will hit you!

Yes, I wrote that, but you "forgot" to add what was directly in front of your quote.

In addition, you got a solution -which is more than only a workaround- in my _FIRST_ answer and showed NO sign what so ever to cooperate by doing some work on your own even if being explicitely told what to do.

You know what?

It's not clueless new users, who "don't know anything about linux" which make we doubt I am doing something useful here, it's users who behave like you and seem to expect to be fed with everything instead of doing anything requiring minimal effort of theír own.

@mods/admins

No need to "ban me for being the bad boy again", I am out of here, openSUSE is maybe my distribution, but this is certainly no longer my type of community.

[finstro]

I will not talk more about rules or correct way to do things.
Sincerely, I think that if your haughty is greater than your eager to help, this community could lost a good help.

Sorry to everybody and in first place to you, Akoellh.

[Knurpht]

Originally Posted by finstro

I will not talk more about rules or correct way to do things.

I read the entire thread. Your question is quite normal, nothing indecent. No apologies needed.r

To help you out:

Start Yast from the menu.
Pick Network Devices
At the right, pick Network Settings
In 'Global Options' select 'Traditional method ifup'
In 'Overview' select your network card, click Edit
Now you can change the IP to 10.0.0.11, netmask 255.255.255.
0 hostname 'WHATYOUWANT', click continue.
Back in the first screen select 'Hostname/DNS', enter the DNS servers like done under the windu OS.
In the 'Routering' tab, set the gateway address (probably 10.0.0.1, you will know).

Check all settings, since you did static configuration it should look familiar to your windu settings. Confirm everything and you should be OK.

I apologize for the 'welcome' you had. This is not normal. Feel free to ask, there's enough people here who don't mind to explain again and again.

[framp]

@finstro: There are two ways to solve a network config problem:

1) You describe your problem and everybody writes down the million possible ways you may have configured your setup incorrectly ... That's very time consuming and usually you will only get questions for the most common configuration errors. That's inefficient!

2) You provide detailed information about your current incorrect network configuration - (that's what akollh asked for) which helps the people trying to help you either to give you the right answer or to ask further < 5 questions instead of a million questions.

[faleloncio]

Hi again

In first place, thank you Knurpht. I was feeling bad about all this discussion, and was not my desire that anyone left this community.

To not despise ab@novell.com post, I tried first tried from command line, with "yast lan", as he suggested. Then a window appear telling something similar to "Actually network is controlled by NetworiMaganer and is not possible to edit it's configuration with YaST.
To edit the config, use NetworkManager connection editor. change ....". That message scares me, so I prefer not to continue in that way.

I must say I have a classroom with 20 PC's and would like to teach my students to learn to use the basis of OpenSuse avoiding to take control from a terminal. Any ex-Windows pupil think that's obsolete and complicated, so I prefer don't talk about "Console" if not strictly neccesary.

After left console, I tried the Knurpht method, more friendly for users, and explained to the least detail. Both of them (ab and Knurpht) gave me the correct way to solve my problem, but lastly I prefer the "desktop way" cause I want to teach in that way to my pupils.

So thank you to both for your solution. I only have a question in my mind: Why the NM didn't launch my profile to work at boot time if I configured it like you told me with IFUP? NM tray icon displayed a heart icon (maybe as a "prefered" option) next to "Auto eth" but I was not able to change that icon to my "static profile" (I would like to send you some captured images if you like to see what I'm talking about)

Best regards