12.3 internet connection confusion

English Network/Internet
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I upgraded from openSUSE 12.2 to 12.3 not 3 hours ago, and after restarting, I can’t connect to the internet with any application except Skype. When I open firefox it can’t find any web server. YaST and Apper are unable to resolve any repositories.

YaST and Apper are giving the error as follows:
“Problem connecting to a software origin
Download (curl) error for ‘http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/content’:
Error code: connection failed
Error Message:could not resolve host: download.opensuse.org: Unknown error”
It displays an error for every repository I have set up.

At first I thought that maybe a firewall was activated when I updated, but there were no active firewalls. So I checked in the release notes, and I saw section 4.1, which tells me to issue the following commands in terminal:

Stop the service first
systemctl is-active network.service &&
systemctl stop network.service
Enable NetworkManager
systemctl --force enable NetworkManager.service
Enable the service again
systemctl start network.service

I’ve done that, and all it succeeds in doing is disconnecting me from my wifi, and then when it’s re-enabled it connects me again, and the problem is unresolved. Any help would be much appreciated.

edited for grammar error

2

So did you visit YaST / Network Devices / Network Settings/ Overview Tab / and see if your network device is listed as Not Configured. If so, select it and edit it and make sure to select DHCP for your IP address.

http://paste.opensuse.org/view/download/18269890

Thank You,

3

My wireless card was configured, but while looking through the network settings, I noticed that IPv6 was enabled, and once disabled I now have access to the internet. Thank you for your help.

4

AH SO, yet another to look for. Thanks for letting us know.

Thank You for using openSUSE,

5

Thank you VERY MUCH. I have the same problem, And it’s SOLVE Now. lol!

6

Yes thank You it solved a problem here also. :slight_smile:

7

Apperently a lot of you are using ISPs that are still not IPv6 ready. That is a shame. You should try to put some pressure on them. The more people complain about them, the more chance they will pay attention.

8

On 03/27/2013 04:46 AM, hcvv wrote:
>
> Apperently a lot of you are using ISPs that are still not IPv6 ready.
> That is a shame. You should try to put some pressure on them. The more
> people complain about them, the more chance they will pay attention.

I agree. More than 99% of IPv6 problems are due to failures in the DNS facility
of the ISP. As mine was quite slow in fixing theirs, I had to modify
/etc/resolv.conf and add nameservers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 before any reference to
the ISPs name server. No troubles since that change.

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I had similar problems on a fresh installation of 12.3.
I was perfectly able to connect to my WLAN, but - after some time of usage - the computer couldn’t solve the hostnames anymore. :frowning:
Disabling IPV6 from YAST solved the problem! :slight_smile: lol!