I have SuSE Linux 7.1 installed on my 7600/200. The specs are as follows:
PowerPC 604 200MHz, 112MB RAM, 9GB SCSI Drive, SCSI CD-ROM, Floppy, ATi Rage 128 PCI Card, Asante' 10/100T Ethernet PCI Card
Partitions are as follows:
3GB - Mac OS 8.5 at the moment 32MB - Linux boot partition 128MB - Linux swap partition 5GB - Linux root partition
Now I have two problems. The first is that the swap is not being used. It fails during startup, no reason given. Not sure what I need to do or where I need to do it to get that working.
Second issue is the more important one. I can't seem to get it on the network. My NIC is recognized, Linux saw the chipset, speed, slot the card was installed, everything was fine. I get lights on my network switch and on the NIC. However, I can not ping out from the 7600 to anything on my network. When I try to configure the network via YaST2 I get two errors:
The first is that no IP Address is received [I am running a DHCP server from an AirPort BaseStation].
The second is that the DHCP client failed to start, I imagine because it does not receive an IP address from the DHCP server.
I am able ping via the loopback address [127.0.0.1] but I can't get out to anything, not my network server, nor my AirPort BaseStation. The terminal responds with the standard error that no network is found.
For kicks I set a manual IP and tried again but that also fails so I went back to setting Linux to use DHCP.
Anyone able to give me some guidance?
David
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