Installed Yoper yesterday on some spare space on my main PC. I was very surprised that it could not manage to set up my network connection automatically. My box runs Slackware9.1 (primary installation), Mandrake9.0 (not been used much in the past year, but nice to have it there
) and Win98 (for the kids
). The box connects to my Smoothwall firewall / router and then out into the world via cable broadband.
The boot process tells me that it cannot find eth0 - none of my other distros have this problem. Modprobe 3c509 makes the card available and then I have to set the IP before it can see my Smoothwall box. And that's where the network ends
The gateway is specified in /etc/resolv.conf i.e.
nameserver 192.168.1.1
I thought that would have done the trick, but no.
From everything I have read I was expecting Yoper to sort this stuff out in it's sleep, and I could spend some time having a play and getting to know the distro. As it is, my box is useless without a network connection. Tell me I have missed the obvious.
