I think I want to do an Internet install or upgrade to Suse 10.2 [from 10.1]. Unfortunately I have the Davicom Tulip Ethernet card which the Internet install CD boots with the tulip driver which doesn't work. How can I get it to load the dmfe driver instead??? The dmfe driver is listed in the boot dialog but after tulip which is probably why it loads tulip by default.

Here's another thought. How can I use Yast [still very slow for me], Smart, or Synaptic to upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2???

Maybe I incorrectly stated the problem. When I attempt to do an Internet install from these instructions:

http://en.opensuse.org/INSTALL_Internet

I get this error:

HTTP network error
Connect: no route to host

This occurs whether I use DHCP or enter network info manually. When I do so manually it correctly detects my computer ip, my router/gateway ip, then for name server it lists my router ip again. Also it loads the tulip driver for my net card as stated above but I'm no longer sure that's the problem. I'm using '195.135.221.134' as the host ip and '/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.2/inst-source/' as the installation directory.

That error means it can't find the remote directory. The IP is at opensuse.org and the server seems to be overloaded.

Have a look at the updated version of that install wiki and find one of the mirrors. Also the download directories now have the format ~/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/ Note the last 3 names have changed from the 10.1 format. Make sure you get the correct path from the mirrors page. When I first tried using the internet install I kept getting that error and it was sometimes a timeout due to a loaded server, but mostly my spelling mistakes.

Thanks, Sadiq. The Internet install instruction page has indeed been edited since yesterday [12-9-2006]. Now with some mirrors I can get it to start to install the installer but it freezes at some point and doesn't finish. Will continue to try with other mirrors.

In fact it was I who edited the wiki

A number of people had been having problems so I tried it out and found it quite out of date. I'm putting my PC back to 10.1, and doing some repartitioning so will probably be up late.

I think a lot of the mirrors are running slow due to people updating to 10.1 RM or 10.2 GM.

Good luck.

Thanks again. I still can't get it to finish installing the installer. Will try later. Meanwhile I'll burn the CD's even though I'd prefer an Internet install. Also a possible reason why my install freezes could be because it is using the tulip ethernet driver instead of dmfe which I haven't figured a way around.

I would even say that's sure! The funny thing is, that dmfe driver is blacklisted by default (I would personally blacklist tulip, ugly thing)

This should be the right way to make it work on the running system:

Go to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and find a line saying
"blacklist dmfe"
Place "tulip" onto "dmfe" and configure your network card.

Yast -> Network dev -> Network Card -> Traditional method -> Edit ->
-> Advanced...-> Hardware details -> Module name -> dmfe

During the installation go to the root console (Alt+F5?) and type there:
Works now?

Best Regards,
OOZIE