locked myself out whilst configuring network...
 

hi folks,

i have been trying a few distros lately and was on cloud nine after completing a suse10/gnome install - it seems a really nice environment.

anyway, after an hour or so trying to get my wireless internet connection up and running, which i have managed under knoppix

(wg11v2 usb wireless dongle using a windows driver through ndiswrapper and connecting to a netgear dg834g adsl modem/router)

i finally struck gold and was on the net. however, after 5 or 10 mins of surfing the whole system ground to a halt, eg no internet at all, and i tried a reboot.

then i find that i get to a login, and go in as root, but the system just hangs. i can see if i reboot that the system hung at the time it was configuring the wireless network wlan0.

i have since been back into knoppix and am back on the net, so i know this is possible (under debian based distros at least).

what I _think_ has happened is that i have put some stupid settings in my /etc/resolve.conf file and actually got on the net by using the gui walk thru's in suse. then when i reboot, it hangs due to a dodgey resolve.conf file... this is what i hope.

is there anyway i can get into suse/gnome and not bother with network settings until i am in, so that i can get past this hanging problem?

my terminal skills are still so rudimentary that i can;t get anywhere from the suse(failsafe) boot option on my own :(


many thanks in advance if you are kind enough to look at this for me,

dan :)

During the grub screen, press F2 (I think) for more boot options, then type init 1 to boot single-user without networking. That should bypass starting the interfaces and give you a chance to fix whatever you broke.

thankyou so much for your reply!

in the end i have re-installed this morning, but i will make a note of this for another time,

cheers,

dan :)