Please forgive my stupidity.
I am trying Open Suse 11.2 KDE Live CD and don’t know how to connect to the internet. What do I do?
susiesled1 wrote:
> Please forgive my stupidity.
> I am trying Open Suse 11.2 KDE Live CD and don’t know how to connect to
> the internet. What do I do?
that depends on what you have there!
here, my tower is plugged into a router which is plugged into my ISP’s
DSL modem which is plugged into the wall…when i boot from the Live
CD it ‘just works’ hands off, automatically…
if yours is a laptop that came with Vista installed and a built in
wireless connection it may be that the hardware inside is built to
work with MS systems only…(they do that, you know?)
however, there are usually (almost always) work arounds…see the
Hardware Compatibility List to learn if your machine should work right
out of the box: http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/
and/or write back and tell us some more info, like:
-machine you are running the Live CD on…
-way you usually connect to the net…
–do you use DHCP, or have to set it manually?
–do you have the ISP provided set up instructions (user id,
password, gateway IP, nameserver IP, etc)
-what system you usually use to connect to the net…
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palladium
I only have dsl, no router, have been using a different distro and thought I would like to try Opensuse.
What is your DSL Modem? USB?
It’s connected to the ethernet card. Not a laptop, a tower.
susiesled1 wrote:
> It’s connected to the ethernet card. Not a laptop, a tower.
with your tower plugged directly into the dsl modem do this in order:
-boot the Live CD
-find the firefox icon on the bar at the bottom of the screen
-SINGLE left click that icon
-wait a second or four…
-what do you see on the Firefox screen? type into the address bar
cnn.com and press enter…what do you see now?
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palladium
i like this information about internet and i have internet connection and router is very necessary for internet.
Not necessarily, Some people just have a USB Modem which does no routing at all.
OK Done that and in both instances it says “server not found”
Why is this the only live cd distro that is so complicated for connecting to the internet.
ok, do you have DCHP or must you set the name server?
which live CDs found the net automatically?
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palladium
I didn’t say they connected automatically, they had a method I could understand and use. Fedora. PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, these were all quite easy to get going.
I guess DHCP would be correct.
Still not connected.
Looks like a lot of people have read this thread, doesn’t anyone have an answer?
Guess it’s time to go, thanks for the space.
I will confirm palladin’s problem. I have a router and have been able to connect using Live CDs from Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS.
I got a message about change to YaST from Network Manager if I wanted to configure the Network Card. I did that. It is not very intuitive and definitely not automatic.
With YaST I get “Ethernet Network Card (Not Connected)”.
I am looking for a Distro to replace Ubuntu 9.10 which I cannot get to Suspend or Hibernate. I am off to Fedora or Linux Mint.
hashky