When I installed 11.2 Kde I configured network via yast manually, there are two cards, eth0 and eth1 (unplugged). I set eth0 with static address, dns servers etc and everything worked fine.
Yesterday, however, I noticed in sysinfo:/ in Konqueror “Unknown Network Status”, and when I checked in Yast I saw a mysterious “Network Bridge”, br0, that has all my static settings while eth0 stays “not configured” but is listed under bridged devices.
I wouldn’t care so much but this configuration might be the source of other problems, most notably zypper not being able to download repos, or other computers not being able to “fish:/” to this machine.
How can I safely get rid of the “bridge” and use eth0 instead, no operating system on this machine has ever used a bridge, it plugs straight into the router.
I guess I could just delete it, but OpenSuse put it there for a reason, and might do it again. Should I just go with Kde Network Manager instead of Yast “with ifup”?
I can not answer your main question (hope someone else will do that), but when you are using a static configuration, using network manager instead of ifup will only bring you disadvantages. To name one: your network will not be started until someone logs in instead that it will be started on runlevel 3 and/or 5, which will not be nice if the system runs any services.
@OP: I rather suspect you configured it in by accident. It’s normally only associated with virtual machines or special network setups. Try just removing it and setting up a normal eth0 interface.
One of my workstations running opensuse has two ethernetports and sysinfo had some troubles in detecting if i had connection or not.
It seems it only will detect the online status if I use ifup instead of networkmanager to manage my connection and shutdown the other port completely.
If not, sysinfo is returning ‘unknown networkstatus’
Is it just me, or is opensuse a bit difficult in networksettings?
I’ve been using opensuse for years now since 10.0 and I’m used to having troubles with networksettings?
I know other distros, some Redmond stuff. openSUSE is not difficult in networksettings IMHO. Maybe you missed something somewhere, can’t tell.
AFAIK ken_yap is right, you accidently misconfigured. I tried, cannot reproduce.
Use ‘ifup’, configure IP, use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for DNS (Google’s public ones, just to make sure it’s not your ISP that’s bothering you with new DNS’s -met that this week-) and your router’s IP as the standard gateway. Check and check again, save and exit.
Sorry for abandoning the thread, I started it to resolve updating issues but they’d been solved independently.
Now I’ve deleted the “bridge” and reset network to eth0. So far everything works just fine - Internet, local browsing, but Network status in sysinfo is still “unknown”.
It doesn’t affect anything else, as far as I can see.
Originally the bridge could have been installed by Xen virtual box, which I have removed now. On uninstall it erased Xen option from grub but could have left “bridge” setting somewhere else.
Well, Xen is gone, “unknown network status” remains. There’s also occasional “fragmentation error” that, I suspect, prevents me from logging in automatically.
Perhaps Xen left some garbage, perhaps it’s something else.