Trying to install openSuSE 11.1 from the c’t DVD on a Samsung V25 XVC 2.8GHz Celeron (1gb RAM including shared Video memory for 18bit XGA 1024 x 768.
Hardware works ok from XPProf on hda0,
Grub boots fine from hda1, rest of 160Gb filled with extended partition hda4 containg Data (hda5 ext3), SuSE (hda6, ext3) and Swap (hda7) all mounted by label.
Peculiarities:
- eth0 needs to be an USB-NIC (software dongle)
- Internet access is via a 16 MBit/s (down) 1Mbit up gateway/nameserver
During first install, I skipped the networkupdate and ran into a yast2-announced “flickering of the display” that amounted to black screen for >1h no disk access ended by user-initiated -cold reboot.
Continuation of installation led me to netconfiguration:
general:
Interfaces controlled by network manager
IPv6 disabled
Firewall enabled
SSH port open
NICs:
82801DB Pro/100 VE(L=M) Ethernet controller configured with static address 192.168.123.2 (eth1)
started automatically at boot
module name e100
automatically assigned zone
MTU1500
Nonroot user device control via Kinternet disabled.
AX178 (not connected) USb ethernet controller configured with static address 192.168.123.1 (eth0)
started at hotplug
modulename asix
internal zone
Both NICS:
hostname Pinguin Domain: office.<myname>.com
write to /etc/hosts
use default pol
Nameserver 192.168.123.252
Domain search office.<myname>.com
Routing
Default Gateway 192.168.123.252
Routing table empty
IP fowarding disabled
Next I come to test connection to the internet 192.168.123.2
Download latest release notes FAILED
Logs:
kernel routing table
eth1 192.168.123. 0 gateway 0.0.0.0 gen mask 255.255.255.0 Flags U 1 0
lo 127. 0. 0. 0 gateway 0.0.0.0 gen mask 255. 0. 0.0 Flags u 0 0
Hostname lookup:
search office<myname>.com
nameserver 192.168.123.252
Download of release notes
About to connect to h t t p : / / w w w . s u s e . c o m port 80 (#0)
Trying 195.135.220.3 Network is unreachable
success
could not connect to host
closing connection #0
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 192.135.220.3
Network unreachable
kernel:
begin of yast2 internet test
end of yast2 internet test
ANY intelligent comments welcome!
Maybe I should not have specified the search domain office.<myname>.com without further entry in /etc/hosts.
This is meant to be redirected to another PC in my LAN later.
So Ideleted that entry but this did not change anything about the result.
I was disappointed by the failure of my gateway to show up in the kernel routing table (line eth1 above).
However, what can I do about it?