DHCP on Suse 11

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#1

Hi, I am not a noob but I do not understand much about internet settings and I am new to suse. I have a DHCP connection here at work but I cannot make it work. I do not know if my card is working… Even Bryan technical world: Using pppoe connect to internet (kde or gnome) on openSUSE does not work for me ( I get this: “UI Syntax Error Invalid arguments for the SelectionBox widget. Check the log file!” after his point 9.
I hope someone can help me out.
Thanks,
Ale

#2

Check you have a valid card config.

as root, from a console session:

ifconfig -a

What do you get back ?

#3

Hi, thanks for your answer!
I get:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:33:05:64:46
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:33ff:fe05:6446/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
Tx packets:1539 errors:0 dropped 384 overruns:0 carrier:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:524582 (512.2 kb)
Interrupt:19 Base address:Oxdead

lo link encap:local loopback
inet addre:127.0.0.1 mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 scope:host
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
Tx packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Rx bytes:700 (700.0 b) Tx bytes:700 (700.0 b)

thanks
ale

#4

Hi

So you have eth0 as a configured network interface.

It does not have a valid v4 ip address assigned to it.

Where do you have dhcp running ?

You could try assigning a static address as a temp measure. Then try pinging local devices.

ifconfig eth0 ipaddress/bitmask i.e. ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.x/24 if you know your local network config

#5

I am trying to connect from my work. I gave the helpdesk my mac address, and they tell me my computer should connect without a static IPaddress, without provider or username whatsoever (in Bryan technical world: Using pppoe connect to internet (kde or gnome) on openSUSE you have to fill them in).
I asked for a IPaddress, but they cannot give it to me or it is not useful, they say. They also tell me that the PPPoE is not my case. Any other idea?