>Hi all,
>
>I sent this mail to SuSE installation support. They did not help me with
>this ! What a shame, one should get his internet connection working I would
>say... Anyway here follows the problem:
>
>
>System:
>PowerMac 7600 / 160 Mb
>SuSE Linux 7.3
>eth0: PCI slot 1: Farallon 10/100 (connected to the ADSL modem with cross
>cable)
>eth1: internal card of the PowerMac (connected to hub with normal cable)
>ISP: ADSL with DHCP recognition
>kernel: oldworld kernel as delivered by the CD
>key nr: 4736 4510 4341 42

 From http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO/configure.html

If your kernel is not 2.4.x, you may need extra software to use 
PPPoE. Do you know if you need to use PPPoE?

>During boot following error messages:
>- wrong entry in /etc/route.conf 0.0.0.0
>routing failed
>
>I checked this file, it looks like this:
>
>default 0.0.0.0

Looks like the ethernet interface is not getting setup by the DHCP 
server, and can't find a route.

>I think it's more a hardware problem (device driver was
>automatically set to tulip (DECchip 21142/43) by SuSE Linux, but I also
>tried other PCI drivers like pcnet32, dmfe, sis900). The eth0 card is by
>Farallon. First question: which device driver should I take for this one,
>probably tulip ?
>Second: Are the eth1 settings important for eth0 ?

No, all my on-board ethernet drivers are for the MACE chip. The MACE 
chip is Apple-specific.

Are the card drivers loaded as modules? Issue a 'lsmod' or 
'/sbin/lsmod' and see if they are listed. If nothing is output, all 
the drivers are compiled into the kernel.

If they are listed as modules, see if there is a /etc/modules.conf or 
/etc/conf.modules file, and issue a 'cat' on it. This file can map a 
card to a specific driver-

alias eth4 sis900

The installation program could have guessed poorly that the on-board 
should use a 'tulip' driver, and written that info to your modules 
configuration file.

The drivers you should use are one of the following:
[chasd@mail net]$ pwd
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net
[chasd@mail net]$ ls m*
mac89x0.c  mace.h  macmace.c
mace.c     mace.o  macsonic.c

mac89x0.c: CS8900 chip used in Daynaport LC cards
mace.c: Network device driver for the MACE ethernet controller
macmace.c: Driver for the Macintosh 68K onboard MACE controller
macsonic.c: A driver for the Mac onboard Sonic ethernet chip.

So you probably want to make sure your on-board eth0 is recognized as 
a MACE and uses the mace driver. It should be compiled into the 
kernel, not loaded as a module, but you could try

alias eth0 mace

in your module config file, or remove any entry like 'alias eth0 tulip'.

>
>eth0        Link encap:Ethernet    HWaddr    00:00:C5:50:68:4D
>         inet6 addr:  fe80::200:c5ff:fe50:684d/10 Scope:Link
>...
>eth1        link encap:Ethernet    HWaddr    00:05:02:1C:EB:10
>         inet6 addr:  fe80::205:2ff:fe1c:eb10/10 Scope:Link

Whoa, is your ISP using IPv6?, because your ifconfig output looks 
like your interfaces have IPv6 addresses (IPv6 addresses have values 
other than numerals, and there is a inet6 before the adddress).
-- 
Charles Dostale
System Administrator
Silver Oaks Communications
http://www.silveroaks.com
824 17th Street
Moline IL USA  61265
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