Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 634

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4 Click Next.
5 Activate the configuration by clicking Finish.
Configuring an Undetected Network Card
It may happen that your card is not detected correctly. In this case, the card is not in-
cluded in the list of the detected cards. If you are sure that your system includes a
driver for your card, you can configure it manually. To configure an undetected network
card, proceed as follows:
1 Click Add.
2 Set the Device Type of the interface from the available options, Configuration
3 Click Next.
4 In the Address tab, set the device type of the interface, the configuration name,
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from the internal network and from the Internet, but cannot access the internal
network.
External Zone
The firewall is run on this interface and fully protects it against other (pre-
sumably hostile) network traffic. This is the default option.
Name, and Module Name. If the network card is a PCMCIA or USB device, ac-
tivate the respective check box and exit this dialog with Next. Otherwise, select
your network card model from Select from List. YaST then automatically selects
the appropriate kernel module for the card.
Hardware Configuration Name specifies the name of the /etc/sysconfig/
hardware/hwcfg-* file containing the hardware settings of your network
card. This contains the name of the kernel module as well as the options needed
to initialize the hardware.
and IP address. To use a static address, choose Static Address Setup then complete
IP Address and Subnet Mask. Here, you can also select to configure the hostname,
name server, and routing details (see
(page 615) and
Section "Configuring Routing"
Section "Configuring Hostname and DNS"
(page 615)).

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