Multiple Connections... Routing issue? Suse 9.1

exabrial · 07-15-2004, 05:10 PM

I am running SuSe 9.1 on my p4 laptop. I have a agere system wireless card that has the drivers loaded.

I am having trouble switching from Ethernet to Wireless. iwconfig doesn't seem to suport my wireless card, so i use YaST to change my wireless settings. The problem is, after i make a wireless network change with YaST, i can never seem to get it to take affect without bringing down both connections, and then just starting the wireless... I want to know why using /etc/init.d/network restart will pull a wireless IP address, but after doing so will leave me unable to connect over wireless. (but not ethernet if it was connected)

here is the output from /etc/init.d/network restart with ethernet disconnected and wireless ready to go:

Code:

FBI:/home/exabrial # /etc/init.d/network restart
Shutting down network interfaces:
    eth0      device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
    eth0      configuration: eth-id-00:02:3f:80:3f:fc                                                             done
    eth1      device: "TOSHIBA", "Wireless LAN Card", "Version 01.01", ""
    eth1      configuration: wlan-bus-pcmcia                                                                      done
Shutting down service network  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .                                        done
Hint: you may set mandatory devices in /etc/sysconfig/network/config
Setting up network interfaces:
    lo
    lo        IP address: 127.0.0.1/8                                                                             done
    eth0      device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
    eth0      configuration: eth-id-00:02:3f:80:3f:fc
    eth0      (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding.                                                waiting
    eth1      device: "TOSHIBA", "Wireless LAN Card", "Version 01.01", ""
    eth1      configuration: wlan-bus-pcmcia
    eth1      (DHCP) . . . . . IP/Netmask: 192.168.2.34 / 255.255.255.0                                           done
Setting up service network  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .                                        done

then, to finally connect the damn thing over wireless, I must

ifdown eth1
ifdown eth0
ifup eth1

Then it finds an IP and everything is peachy. But why won't it work the first time???

Thank you! -Jonathan

PS here is the output from route -n

Code:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth1
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         192.168.2.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth1