Hi all ,
I have taken the plunge and installed suse 11 from the dvd. I have a asus p5n32=e sli motherboard and leaving evething at default I was not able to connect to the internet.
So having this problem in the past I fired up a terminal and entered this as root
gedit /etc/modprobe.d/forcedeth
then add this to a file
options forcedeth msi=0 msix=0
saved the file and rebooted. Now when I try and use firefox I can get a limited connection to the suse site but I cannot connect to google or any other site like gmail. Firefox is set to no proxy underconnections , the connections manager is default using dhcp. Another odd point to not is Pidgin seems to work ok with an aim account , msn messenger will not work or connect at all.
I have got all the updates installed with some difficulties connections dropping out etc. I know my internet connection is good as windows xp works fine with any site.
Hi,
Thankyou for the quick reply. I looked at the HardWare list my board is listed as working I have a good bios.
Did you run Yast>Network Devices>Network Settings? And try to configure your device?
yes I looked at that , its set to DCHP and everything else is default the router handles everything.I wish I had a spare ethernet card to test all this out. So odd how it works / doesn’t work