[NTLUG:Discuss] SUSE 9.1

[terry]

Stephen Davidson wrote:
> Andrew Brown wrote:
> 
>> I have Comcast and want to get it hooked up to my Linux. Used to run 
>> Red Hat
>> Ent WS3 and had no problem, but the YaST is not working for some 
>> reason. Id
>> there something I am missing? Would love some direction! Suse is set up a
>> bit different than the Red model.
>>
>>
>>
>> ab
>>
>>  
>>
> Hi Andrew.
> One of two things;
> 1) If you get an error trying to start YaST, then you probably have a 
> corrupt install.
> 2) If YaST is working, check your routing tables (route -n).  You 
> probably have a 169.*, as well as possibly a 127.* entry, as defined 
> routes.  This was working fine straight from the CDs(as in, those 
> entries were NOT there), but after an update, the networking scripts 
> started adding those two entries for some strange reason.  It is a big 
> nuisance to have to go and manually remove those entries after every 
> boot/network start.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
> 

Try running yast from terminal window and you should get some info maybe 
pertaining to the failure.