So I had a perfectly fine working installation of Fedora 20 or 21, with all of the latest updates installed. I tried installing the NI-RIO Linux v14.0 and I was getting some weird link error. Then I looked at the Readme file and it said I can use one of several versions of the following distributions:
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux
* Scientific Linux
* OpenSUSE
Now I didn't want to pay for a subscription to RHEL, I didn't want to use Scientific Linux because it would take forever to configure all of the add-ons/bells and whistles that come with a more popular distribution, and by process of elimination, I thought OpenSUSE would be great.
So I installed OpenSUSE 13.2, and after I installed the NI-RIO drivers, my network adapter stopped working only if my PXI chassis was turned on. I did some searching and found some great guides, so I wanted to share them here.
"FIX ETHERNET CONFIGURATION ON OPENSUSE TO CONNECT"
http://blog.thismagpie.com/2014/02/fix-ethernet-configuration-on-opensuse.html
and a really great guide on setting up Samba on OpenSUSE (so that I can easily transfer files to this machine)
http://www.unixmen.com/install-and-configure-samba-server-on-opensuse-13-1/
After I finished, I ssh'ed into my machine and ran "lsni -v" and saw my RIO device!
Thanks!
