can't connect to the internet any more

English Network/Internet
#1

Hi all,

I use openSuse 11.xx and all was going fine until yesterday. When booting up now, I can’t connect to the internet any more. I takes much longer to boot now as if openSuse tries to look for something that disappeared or got corrupt. All started with the latest safety update.

Anyone a clue ?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

W

#2

Well, my assumption would be that something else happened and you should try to learn how to debug this, and we can help you. First in a console as root type this command and post the result:
ifconfig
this command tells you about all your network connections you have.
I’m not sure if you are using network manager or the traditional method with ifup. but if you type the command(with the assumption that your connection is eth0 this will disconnect you):
ifdown eth0
and to connect again
ifup eth0
now try to see again if anything changed by reissuing the command ifconfig

cheers

#3

Hello,

Thanks for your very fast answer.
I can give you the following information :

  • happily I have a dual boot system : the Windows OS gives me access to the internet
  • the version of openSuse is : 11.1, kernel 2.6.27.39-0.2

ifconfig gives this result :

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6340 (6.1 Kb) TX bytes:6340 (6.1 Kb)

ifdown eth0 gives this result :

eth0 device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)

No configuration found for eth0
Nevertheless the interface will shut down.

ifup eth0 gives this result :

eth0 device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
No configuration found for eth0.

I hope this gives you some more clues.

Sincerely yours,

W