New Member To Suse. - Network Problem

Hi there all, my first post.

I have finally moved away from the devastation that is Microsoft and have got on to the real world of Linux OpenSUSE 10.3 which is the future. I have tried once before of moving to it but had the same problem then as i do now.

I was previously on Windows Vista Ultimate and everything was working great (apart from it being microsoft) and the internet was fine. I have now installed open suse and i cannot for the life of me get on to the internet via Firefox. What do i need to do to access the internet?

I currently have a 20meg broadband connection and my pc is connected to my Netgear Router. I understand that you are going to probably need more info than i have given so please ask away as to what you need to help me unless you can tell me the answer straight away.

Up the SUSe! :lol:

please can anyone help.

please can anyone help.
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:lol: Patience NEO-BAHAMUT-, it was only 45 mins between your posts, we have to sleep sometimes

The advice is different depending if your connection is wired by ethernet cable or wireless. Anyway, some questions:

Are you using wired or wireless?
What's the brand and model of your card?
Please post the output back here for these commands enterd in a console/terminal (use copy/paste is easy):

• ifconfig
• route
• cat /etc/resolv.conf

Swerdna

:lol: Patience NEO-BAHAMUT-, it was only 45 mins between your posts, we have to sleep sometimes

The advice is different depending if your connection is wired by ethernet cable or wireless. Anyway, some questions:

Are you using wired or wireless?
What's the brand and model of your card?
Please post the output back here for these commands enterd in a console/terminal (use copy/paste is easy):

• ifconfig
• route
• cat /etc/resolv.conf

Swerdna
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Cheers for the reply Sorry mate im just sooo wanting to get this under way. Im currently using my dads computer down stairs to get on the net as its still working wirlessly through the router.

Right ok

1. My internet connection is wired.
2. My ethernet model / brand is "Intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
3 How do i get to the console / terminal.
4. Also do you mean ipconfig and not ifconfig?..... :unsure:

Cheers for the reply Sorry mate im just sooo wanting to get this under way. Im currently using my dads computer down stairs to get on the net as its still working wirlessly through the router.

Right ok

1. My internet connection is wired.
2. My ethernet model / brand is "Intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
3 How do i get to the console / terminal.
4. Also do you mean ipconfig and not ifconfig?..... :unsure:
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Looks like you've not configured your network card. It should auto configure itself for getting an address by DHCP from the router, but for some reason it didn't. So don't worry about the diagnostic commands in the console, just proceed to configure the card manually with the Yast GUI. Here's a pictorial tutorial, focus on the default DHCP configuration use Pics 1 to 6 inclusive.

For the record, in KDE you find the consoles in the menu by following Menu --> Applications --> System --> Terminal.

Swerdna

Looks like you've not configured your network card. It should auto configure itself for getting an address by DHCP from the router, but for some reason it didn't. So don't worry about the diagnostic commands in the console, just proceed to configure the card manually with the Yast GUI. Here's a pictorial tutorial, focus on the default DHCP configuration use Pics 1 to 6 inclusive.

For the record, in KDE you find the consoles in the menu by following Menu --> Applications --> System --> Terminal.

Swerdna
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Im afraid that hasn't worked. Maybe you could give me a good tutorial yourself and explain it a little more for me i would be able to do it. When i change it to DHCP it doesn't seem to do anything.

Please help this is really frustrating me ......i most certainly do not want to go back to Micros***e

Im afraid that hasn't worked. Maybe you could give me a good tutorial yourself and explain it a little more for me i would be able to do it. When i change it to DHCP it doesn't seem to do anything.

Please help this is really frustrating me ......i most certainly do not want to go back to Micros***e
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Well that's a puzzle, I wonder if the cards's active. OK Open a console and enter su to get rootly power to execute system commands. Then enter the three commands I listed earlier to gether with the command lspci and use your mouse to block out and copy/paste the whole session back here.

And no I don't meand ipconfig (that's windows) I do mean ifconfig.

Swerdna

Well that's a puzzle, I wonder if the cards's active. OK Open a console and enter su to get rootly power to execute system commands. Then enter the three commands I listed earlier to gether with the command lspci and use your mouse to block out and copy/paste the whole session back here.

And no I don't meand ipconfig (that's windows) I do mean ifconfig.

Swerdna
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Hi mate, sorry it took so long to reply... we have to sleep here in england too.

I'm not quite sure how i copy and paste from thr xterminal (im a complete noob to Linux and when i press ctrl+c it wouldnt copy and paste.) so i have taken screen shots that might help you. Ive uploaded them and they should be pretty easy to see.



and another here



Hope this helps as im stumped as to what has happend. Could you give me your thoughts on what may be the problem as its picking it up fine but just wont connect to it.

Thanks Mate

You take your mouse and left-click-hold-down the button after placing the mouse at the top left of the console display (on the topmost word) and drag the mouse to the bottom right until you "block" the whole text. Then let the mouse button up and goto the top menu and select EDIT --> COPY and bring the mouse to the web browser open at your forum reply and goto the browser top menu and select EDIT --> PASTE.

The picture is v hard but I think it says working well:

Ifconfig: says thet the card is working fine and getting an IP address of 192.168.1.3 from the router.
Route: says that it knows the gateway to the internet (182.168.1.1)
Cat /etc/resolv.conf: might be much improved by hand-coding the IP addesees of the Name servers provided by your ISP. You do that in Yast but long story cut short with this pictorial guide:
HowTo Configure a network card in Suse/openSUSE 10.x for LAN and Internet Access

based on what we see, fully active card, I recommend you focus on "For DHCP on steroids use Pics 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8", particular attention to pics 7 & 8.

Swerdna

You take your mouse and left-click-hold-down the button after placing the mouse at the top left of the console display (on the topmost word) and drag the mouse to the bottom right until you "block" the whole text. Then let the mouse button up and goto the top menu and select EDIT --> COPY and bring the mouse to the web browser open at your forum reply and goto the browser top menu and select EDIT --> PASTE.

The picture is v hard but I think it says working well:

Ifconfig: says thet the card is working fine and getting an IP address of 192.168.1.3 from the router.
Route: says that it knows the gateway to the internet (182.168.1.1)
Cat /etc/resolv.conf: might be much improved by hand-coding the IP addesees of the Name servers provided by your ISP. You do that in Yast but long story cut short with this pictorial guide:
HowTo Configure a network card in Suse/openSUSE 10.x for LAN and Internet Access

based on what we see, fully active card, I recommend you focus on "For DHCP on steroids use Pics 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8", particular attention to pics 7 & 8.

Swerdna
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Cheers mate i will have a look at that as soon as i finish work in 3 hours time. I pretty much understand everything apart from this bullet point here which im getting confused about.

• Insert the IP addresses of the Name Servers provided by your ISP into slots for Name Server 1 and Name Server 2 [/b]

hopefully you can explain to me that a bit better in more detail. It should be much easier to get to the forums as well now as i am taking the laptop home to connect to the net through.