I have an Intel Mac that I recently added openSUSE 11.3 to to have a dual-boot
system. This has been working fine for me for the last 5-6 months. Then on
1/18/2011 I shutdown my system and totally disconnected everything and moved
it all out of my office, so new carpeting could be installed. After it was installed,
I reconnected everything and confirmed that everything on my Mac side works
just fine. Then I rebooted into Linux and everything worked until I tried to run
Firefox to connect to the internet. I’m told every time that it could not connect
to the server for whatever I tried to connect to. I AM NEW TO LINUX AND ANY
KIND OF NETWORK/INTERNET PROBLEMS, SINCE I’M USED TO MAC WHERE
EVERYTHING JUST WORKS. But, I did click on “computer” in the lower left-hand
side of the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. This shows on the right-hand
side under STATUS “Network: none” and then it states to click this to get it
started or connected (I don’t remember which) so I click it. This brought up a
window asking me for my password and then a new window where it went
through a checklist of things and presented me my network settings, which
means nothing to me. However, after this I tried Firefox again with not luck.
So, that’s why I’m asking for help here! Any help/suggestions would greatly
appreciated. Thanks!
rderosier wrote:
> I have an Intel Mac that I recently added openSUSE 11.3 to to have a
> dual-boot
> system. This has been working fine for me for the last 5-6 months. Then
> on
> 1/18/2011 I shutdown my system and totally disconnected everything and
> moved
> it all out of my office, so new carpeting could be installed. After it
> was installed,
> I reconnected everything and confirmed that everything on my Mac side
> works
> just fine. Then I rebooted into Linux and everything worked until I
> tried to run
> Firefox to connect to the internet. I’m told every time that it could
> not connect
> to the server for whatever I tried to connect to. I AM NEW TO LINUX AND
> ANY
> KIND OF NETWORK/INTERNET PROBLEMS, SINCE I’M USED TO MAC WHERE
> EVERYTHING JUST WORKS. But, I did click on “computer” in the lower
> left-hand
> side of the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. This shows on the
> right-hand
> side under STATUS “Network: none” and then it states to click this to
> get it
> started or connected (I don’t remember which) so I click it. This
> brought up a
> window asking me for my password and then a new window where it went
> through a checklist of things and presented me my network settings,
> which
> means nothing to me. However, after this I tried Firefox again with not
> luck.
> So, that’s why I’m asking for help here! Any help/suggestions would
> greatly
> appreciated. Thanks!
>
>
please do not take this as a indication i do not think you are a
genius…i really do, if for no other reason than you run Mac AND
Linux and didn’t mention the Black Scourge to computing!!
-so, shut down your linux computer
-find the wire leading from your computer to the network
- unhook it and then look to make SURE you hook it into whatever it
was hooked into before the rug came…it is probably hooked into an
ethernet port, but your computer may have more than one port…one
for a built-into-the-motherboard network card and another one for an
added in network card…
if you have two, your computer’s software is set up to use a
particular one…so, switch reconnect it to the other port, boot up
and see if you have network again (sure hope you didn’t change
anything in your network settings!)
if you have only one port, then plug it back into that port (i did
this on purpose, because maybe there is a little spot of corrosion in
that connection and just remove/replace the plug will ‘fix’ the
problem…
- if your computer has only one ethernet port, then (after plugging
into the machine) follow that wire and find where it plugs into
(maybe) a router…
if it is a router, did you unplug it from the router when you moved
for the carpet? are their other empty ports? if so pick one (i’m not
certain, if this will be helpful, but it might be) then reboot your
machine and see if you have network again…
if not, and there remains yet another place on the router to plug in a
machine, try that other port…
sorry…i MUST run, i am already late…hope that helps, if not report
back and someone else may help!!
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DenverD
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@DenverD
I think that the machine connects when he boots to Mac.
I have an Intel Mac that I recently added openSUSE 11.3 to to have a dual-boot
system.
<snip>
After it was installed,
I reconnected everything and confirmed that everything on my Mac side works
just fine. Then I rebooted into Linux…
@redrosier
I should imagine that the openSuSE desktop is the same on mac as pc.
If you left-click the network manager icon in the right of the taskbar check that it gives you an option for eth0 or whatever it calls the network.
If not, right-click the icon and configure the network for the card, as you did before.
Tell it to auto-connect.
If this doesn’t work, try booting to Mac and check the network settings there - the things to check are:
Whether it is set as dhcp or whether it has a manual address.
If the latter, note the ipaddress (something like 192.168.x.x) and netmask (something like 255.255.255.0)
Now reboot to linux and configure the network with these values.
(Sorry, I don’t use network manager, so can’t be more help at the moment.)
If you are still having problems, look at this:
Configure a network card in Suse/openSUSE 11.x for Internet Access & wifi.
My Mac does indeed have 2 ethernet ports. My Mac documentation states I can connect to either
and the Mac should should work fine. So, I connected to one and tested the Mac side of things and
all was well. Booting into Linux is where things did not work, so I switched to the other ethernet
port and it made no difference, so I shutdown and rebooted back into Mac. Still using the 2nd
ethernet port, now the Mac refused to connect to the internet. However, clicking on its
“Troubleshooting” button guided me through a few steps and then had me reset the cable modem
and all was working again for Mac. Then I rebooted into Linux and even Linux was connecting to
the internet, now. So, using ethernet port 0 works for both systems while ethernet port 1 works
for Mac but not for Linux. I don’t know why, but things are working again, and that’s what matters.
Thanks
Ron
glad you got it working…
had i had time to complete my response the first time i would have
suggested you try to shutdown and restart the router or modem or
whatever was at the other end of the wire connected to your linux
computer which couldn’t net…
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like 127.0.0.1.