I’m having a wireless issue (go figure) where I can’t get to the internet, can get to my LAN just fine, but trying to ping anywhere on the net just gives me “network unavailable” message.
One thing I’ve seen noted here time and again is people saying “Use Yast vs Network manager” when I go through the Yast Network Devices GUI it tells me it’s using network manager, and I need to use ifup (if I want to use Yast), however I have no clue how to go about changing it from one to the other?
Currently I’m using hard-link to get all the updates and see if that will resolve my problems, but figured I’d learn how I’m supposed to switch it for the future.
Thanks to both for the info, if, once I’ve done the updates, I still can’t get it to work, will try changing to ifup (and probably post more here with the detailed info on what is being reported).
At least the hard-link lets me get to the internet, not totally stranded.
On 03/24/2010 03:06 PM, Arla wrote:
>
> Thanks to both for the info, if, once I’ve done the updates, I still
> can’t get it to work, will try changing to ifup (and probably post more
> here with the detailed info on what is being reported).
>
> At least the hard-link lets me get to the internet, not totally
> stranded.
Either change the global links as noted above, or delete and remake the
connections. I do not recommend switching to ifup. Newgies always forget one or
more settings. The problem was a bug in NM that is now fixed. The only problem
is that the bad settings persist in established connections.
To use yast2 and ifup, go to yast2>net devices>network settings and choose ‘trad method with ifup’ in the global tab. Close and then go back to net settings to configure the network.