[SLUG] Network

[Pete Redwood]

Hi all
I'm struggling to get two computers in the same room to talk to each 
other. Both have ethernet cards, both computers connected by network 
cable, both machines running SuSE 9.1.
I was reading the other week that all that was needed was to give both 
machines a static IP address and then log in to that address. I am 
missing something? SuSE reports that the network cards are configured as 
DHCP and therefore require a DHCP server. Follow instructions to set up 
server, click button to start server - message "Error, server cannot be 
started." Try the NFS route, same result. I can't find any way in SuSE 
to configure as static IP. As soon as I try to set up a server on either 
machine they hang on bootup with the message "No network found".
Any suggestions?

Pete Redwood