Dell Inspiron 7500, 600mhz P3, 4 gig unallocated partition, 5 gig NTFS partition, router

trying to run the install from network using SuSE boot ISO.
Get to point where it asks for ftp server IP. No user/pass, no proxy. I have given it all mirror server IP's I can find and I get Message: Error while accessing the FTP server: Failed to connect to FTP server.

Verified PCMCIA mod is active, verified router is allowing FTP.
I can ping and access the ftp servers from other workstations using Mandrake on the LAN.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Is SuSE making this difficult on purpose??

Cerberus71

Is the driver module for your network adapter (be it a PCMCIA card or integrated) loaded?

Håkan

Yes it appears to have autoloaded as, when I try to manually load the pcmcia drivers it tells me that "pcmcia already active!"

Have you configured the following:

- network interface (eth0 normally) with an IP address and brought it up,
- configured a default route (assuming you're not on the same subnet as the machine serving the files),
- and if you're using hostnames (ftp.suse.com, instead of 195.135.221.130) you'll need to configure a DNS server.

Regards
Steve