Hello Everyone!
I am complete newbie with OpenSuse. Previously I used Ubuntu and loved it. I thought I should give OpenSUSE a try. And after installing I don’t regret my decision.
But unfortunately, i can’t connect to internet. I have a pppoe connection and an ADSL modem. In ubuntu i used to configure the connection with “sudo pppoeconf”. Here in SUSE, things look much better since it has a GUI based configuration manager.
I set up the network settings and it could detect my modem. And configured the dsl settings. But don’t know why I still can’t connect. I am adding some screenshots. Please take a look.
I also tried this one: Bryan 手æœ* — 生活記趣 » How to connect to internet by PPPOE (KDE or Gnome) on Opensuse But my right-click isn’t working (yes, i will buy a new one)
Also ifconfig gives me: “bash: No such command” which is surprising.
Regards
On the Hostname|DNS tab
uncheck Update DNS data via DHCP
under Name Servers enter the (DNS) name servers that your ISP uses
(in plain language, you’re telling it some numbers it ought to be able to work out for itself but can’t)
On my router, DNS is a tad flaky, so I’ve got into the habit of hard-coding the name servers on openSUSE (and Windows XP) - the trick seems to work.
As belt-and-braces, under Routing (or wherever it’s hiding) confirm that your Default Gateway is set to 192.168.1.1
other than Ubuntu, “normal” distributions allow you to become root on a console. So open a console and type
su
The prompt should become red after that. Now try
ifup dsl0
to check if your connection is working.
Before you do that, maybe the name server numbers you need are listed on your router? Also, you’re presumably posting from another machine, rummage around in there for them.
thanks again…i will try with the opendns numbers…I am currently on Windows, on the same machine…is there any chaance to get the name servers on windows?
Anyway, here are some results:
linux-6dsv:/home/dutta # ifconfig
dsl0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:59.93.216.132 P-t-P:59.93.192.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:594 (594.0 b) TX bytes:494 (494.0 b)
Here’s how to set the openDNS ones on Windows XP - don’t break Windows though - I’m saying so 'cos the ones your ISP gave you might be in there already
Oh dear. I’m a bit confused by that default route and subnet mask. I could be barking up the wrong tree :o
Anyway, you can still go into openSUSE, uncheck that tickbox as I suggested, put in the openDNS nameservers from their website (it’s all documented there in the forum link) and give it a go.
The dialog box isn’t wrong, it’s not what I expected. So I’m being cautious about my own diagnostic abilities.
Your /etc/resolv.conf is what I’d expect. I wouldn’t have suggested editing it, I’d have recommended staying within the GUI. (You edited it, didn’t you?)
The puzzle now is, why isn’t resolv.conf matching what you have in the GUI? What I do know is that openSUSE does some stuff “behind the scenes” so I’d still advise you to enter those two nameservers in the GUI, uncheck that “Update DNS via DHCP” tickbox and let openSUSE configure itself.
Oh, and ping an IP address, we can be more confident it is a DNS problem if the ping comes back.
> ping 64.233.187.99
PING 64.233.187.99 (64.233.187.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=113 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=115 ms
If it comes back as it did for me, you’re getting onto the internet but something isn’t converting hostnames to IP addresses - that’s DNS’ job and we’re on the right track.
If it doesn’t come back, then I can’t help you immediately.
Ok the fist screen capture you posted had the Network Settings windo.w Global Settings tab.
There are two settings near the top
User controlled with NetworkManager
o Traditional Method with ifup
make sure you select the traditional method with ifup.
NetworkManager is a bit incomplete yet with handling all network connections types. Switch it to ifup and proceed with the defaults settings, (you may need to delete and reinstall the dsl modem to reset to the defaults). This might clear up the problem. (no guaranty on this! let me know what happens…
let me know what happens…