Problem With Networking

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Networking
1

Hello,
I installed SLES 10 SP2 a couple days ago and I still haven’t been able to get the network to work.
Can anybody help get this to work?

Thanks

2

What kind of error are you seeing?

What does…
#> /sbin/ifconfig -a
show?

Also, what does
#> /bin/netstat -nr
show?

Are you using DHCP or static IP addresses?

3

Hi,
I am using a static IP address. It seems like it’s either not detecting the network card or something like that.
Since I am using IPMI at the moment, I have to snip and paste the output. (see below)

[QUOTE=summitflier;12748]What kind of error are you seeing?

What does…
#> /sbin/ifconfig -a
show?

Also, what does
#> /bin/netstat -nr
show?

Are you using DHCP or static IP addresses?[/QUOTE]

4

Sorry. this is the image:

5

Hi
What hardware? SLES 10 SP2 is old, I would say the kernel doesn’t know
about the hardware;

hwinfo --netcard
/sbin/lspci -nn |grep Net

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 5:56, 4 users, load average: 0.28, 0.29, 0.31
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile

6

This is what i got from the first command. The second command brought nothing.

7

Hi
So that uses the igb kernel module, can you post the output from;

uname -a
modinfo igb

If you get output from the second command, check for a line;

alias:          pci:v00008086d0000150Esv*sd*bc*sc*i*

Does it exist?

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 9:17, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.14, 0.15
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile

8

Hi,
Sorry for the late reply.
I tried a couple of things since I noticed this is a common problem. I installed 11 sp2 and got the same thing; then removed it and installed SLES 10 SP4 and it worked automatically for whatever reason.
Ironically, really don’t understand why this worked. I did nothing different.

Thanks for following up though.

[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;12753]Hi
So that uses the igb kernel module, can you post the output from;

uname -a
modinfo igb

If you get output from the second command, check for a line;

alias:          pci:v00008086d0000150Esv*sd*bc*sc*i*

Does it exist?

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 9:17, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.14, 0.15
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile[/QUOTE]