[YLUG] Re: OpenSuse 10.2 problems

[alastair green]

Finally found the entry for this in Yast2 under Network services>Routing.
If it is no longer possible to set this from the Network interfaces
configuration section then I wish they would remove the field for it rather
than just disabling it.

On 18/01/07, alastair green <purplepangolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have recently upgraded my home laptop from OpenSuse 10 to OpenSuse 10.2.
> It went fairly smoothly but I still have a few niggles and wondered if any
> of you could advise me:
>
> 1)My default gateway setting has been lost.  Each time I boot my laptop I
> need to execute "route add default gw 192.168.0.1".  How can I make this
> setting persist?  the network interface configuration tool appears to have
> changed in this release in that it gives you two options to control
> interfaces, ifup (default) and some other network control service whose name
> I can't recall.  If I select ifup then the feild for setting the default
> gateway via the wizard is disabled.
>
> 2)My digital camera (Canon Ixus 55) is not recognized when I plug it in.
> There is no error message and I am not certain whether it has registered the
> fact that anything has been plugged in.
>
> 3)Finally, whenever I launch YAST or anything else requiring root, I am
> prompted for the root password (as expected) but then when I press OK
> nothing happens.  I can work around this by getting root at a console and
> then launching yast but I would rather get it fixed if I can.
>
> I am at work at the moment so I won't be able to try things out or add
> extra info about error messages etc. until I get home.
>
> Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Alastair
>
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