Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 628

30.4 Configuring a Network
There are many supported networking types on Linux. Most of them use different device
names and the configuration files are spread over several locations in the file system.
For a detailed overview of the aspects of manual network configuration, see
"Configuring a Network Connection Manually"
During installation, YaST can be used to configure automatically all interfaces that
have been detected. Additional hardware can be configured any time after installation
in the installed system. The following sections describe the network configuration for
all types of network connections supported by SUSE Linux Enterprise.
30.4.1 Configuring the Network Card with
To configure your network wired or wireless card in YaST, select Network Devices >
Network Card. After starting the module, YaST displays a general network configuration
dialog. Choose whether to use YaST or NetworkManager to manage all your network
devices. If you want to configure your network in the traditional way with the YaST,
check Traditional Method with ifup and click Next. To use NetworkManager, check
User Controlled with NetworkManager and click Next. Find detailed information about
NetworkManager in
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NOTE: Network Method and Xen
NetworkManager does not work with Xen. Only Traditional Method with ifup
is available in Xen.
The upper part of the next dialog shows a list with all the network cards available for
configuration. Any card properly detected is listed with its name. To change the confi-
guration of the selected device, click Edit. Devices that could not be detected can be
configured using Add as described in
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Connection with YaST
YaST
Section 30.5, "Managing Network Connections with NetworkMan-
(page 627).
(page 618).
(page 630).
Section "Configuring an Undetected Network
Section 30.6,