hi there,
i really need your help cuz im on the track of getting mad already,
i have a GERICOM WEBBOY with a pIII 850 and "SiS 900 10/100 Mbit/s ethernet card.
i tried to configure it with yast2 but while saving changes yast2 tells me something like "..device eth0 is not running" and thats why yast2 doesnt want to mark eth0 as active
i really have no clue what to do,im a absolute linux-newbie!!!!
I really need your help gyus ,dont know what to do

by the way i have the distribution suse 7.3 installed

first off, the ethernet howto's at www.linuxdoc.org have great documentation, might want to check that out.

ok, it won't make your nic active.. at command, what output do you have when you use ifconfig up eth0 to try to make active or the output of just ifconfig eth0 ??

hi!!
i did what you told me (expect for reading the howtos cuz of time)
and thats the result:

typing ifconfig up eth0:
eth0:Host name looup failureifconfig:'--help' gives usage information

typing ifconfig eth0:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:C1:E5:02
inet addr:192.168.22.1 Bcast:192.168.22.255 Mast:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr:fe80::2a0::ccff:fec1:e502/10 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqeuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:564 (564.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000

thats it.
well hope that sounds not like chinese for you hehehe cuz i dont understand a word.

thatx a lot for answering that fast


kokonut

I guess you should type, instead of ifconfig up eth0, ifconfig eth0 up

hope it works for you....then try pinging to yourself