Cannot connect to Internet-wired or wireless

I just installed Open Suse and cannot connect no matter what I do! Am I supposed to have a wired connection while downloading and installing? i know both work because I have WinX and two other Linux installs on my computer- Please help! OS will not save anything i type into new connection! and- I am not a Newbie with Linux!

If you were connected to a wired network during installation, I would have expected your wired ethernet connection to be working.

  1. Start by showing us your network interfaces present. Open a terminal window and type
ip addr

Since you don’t have network connectivity, you can copy/paste to a text file and transfer to an internet-connected computer using a memory stick.

  1. For information about your network hardware, you can do
/usr/sbin/hwinfo --netcard
  1. Are you using Network Manager or wicked? If you don’t know, report back with output of
systemctl status network
  1. This guide will help you use YaST to configure your network

https://activedoc.opensuse.org/book/opensuse-reference/chapter-13-basic-networking#sec.basicnet.yast.netcard

On 08/19/2015 06:36 PM, paul88ks wrote:
>
> I just installed Open Suse and cannot connect no matter what I do! Am I
> supposed to have a wired connection while downloading and installing? i
> know both work because I have WinX and two other Linux installs on my
> computer- Please help! OS will not save anything i type into new
> connection! and- I am not a Newbie with Linux!

What are your box’s network settings?


ip a
ip r
ip -s link
grep '^#' /etc/resolv.conf

What are the settings for your working systems?
If you have access to it, does your router show this device as being
online and pingable from it?


Good luck.

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Although a network connection is not required during installation, it’s highly recommended.

If a network connection isn’t active during install, then you will have what you describe… a machine which may not be configured with a network connection. If this happens, then you have to open up YAST and configure.

During the install, the network adapter is identified, probed and configured. IIRC if you choose a default install it’ll automatically set the network adapter with DHCP. I always select non-automatic settings so that I see exactly what is happening at every step even if I accept defaults, I recommend the same.

TSU

Thanks guys - i will try all suggestions tonight and post results! Collectively and Individually- on my way to work right now!

Well,first of all -Good news to report,Wired and Wireless are both working! Here’s what I did.Basically-I started over.First- I downloaded the Milestone version- don’t know if that is a good or bad thing- Second- I did the install with a wired connection.OS saw the LAN card and I configured it with DHCP.After the install was finished,I had to go update grub from my Linux Mate partition.Rebooted and was up and online.Third- I went to Network settings and had to use Yast to configure the wireless USB.OS had to download and install some additional drivers to make it work.Fourth- had to go reset the modem and router,and Fifth and lastly,unplugged the LAN Cable and rebooted and BINGO! Online! Thanks All - for all your help! OpenSuse is a little different than what i am used to- I have tried at least 20 Distros before i settled on Linux Mint Mate 17.2 and I use Ubuntu Studio for my professional work.I am a musician! So -that being said, i have a whole new OS to learn and explore! I am sure I will be asking more questions! I chose the KDE desktop because I am more familiar with it than Gnome!-Paul;)

That is good news.

Here’s what I did.Basically-I started over.First- I downloaded the Milestone version- don’t know if that is a good or bad thing

I wouldn’t have recommended doing that for a new user. The Milestones are for testing, not general use. Anyway, it’s all part of learning I guess :slight_smile:

As @deano commented, if you use a milestone (particularly an early one) you can expect unreliability and breakage.

I’d recommend the following steps to change to openSUSE 13.2 (current stable). By doing an online “distro upgrade” you’d be changing openSUSE versions but retaining all the good work you’ve done to this point… your installed drivers and network settings. There is some significant risk involved but IMO it’s worth the risk now when the install is brand new rather than later when you have further customized installing additional apps and creating User files.

  • open YAST > Software Repositories.
    Select every repo and click the “Enabled” checkbox so that it’s empty. At this point you’re not removing the repos, so you can always undo future steps and return to your current “Milestone” install by disabling the repos you’ll later install and re-enabling these.

  • Add the openSUSE 13.2 repositories by opening a root console (open a console and “su”) and pasting the following into it (CTL-SHFT-V)

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-non-oss/  Update Repository (Non-Oss) &&zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/non-oss/ Main Repository (NON-OSS) &&
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/ Main Repository (OSS) &&
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2/ Main Update Repository  &&
zypper ref

If the above executes properly, you should be prompted to accept the GPG key for each of the repositories.

  • Now, if you are very cautious, you can do a test run to verify you won’t generate any errors, but it will run for a long time… IMO up to 2 hrs depending on your Internet connection speed. Otherwise, just skip to doing the actual upgrade
zypper dup -D

To do the actual upgrade, run the following in your root console

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-non-oss/  Update Repository (Non-Oss) &&zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/non-oss/ Main Repository (NON-OSS) &&
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/ Main Repository (OSS) &&
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2/ Main Update Repository  &&
zypper ref

Should you decide you want to return to your milestone install, perform the above steps, but instead

  • In YAST, disable the 13.2 repos and re-enable your milestone repos.
  • Do a “zypper dup” again.

HTH,
TSU

oops- well first mistake- I thought I was getting the super-duper version of Open-Suse by installing Milestone- going to change that right away per your instructions- also - why did Open-Suse create two partitions on my testbed drive?