hi everyone
i just installed open suse 11 and this is the first time i work with linux so basicaly i have no idea what am i doing.
after installing open suse i can not connect to internet and after a little search i figured linux doesn’t reconize my ethernet on asus motherboard P5Q-E so what do i do now? how do i get it to work.
please help
if it’s easier for you to contact me through email you can email me at
zeamon@gmail.com
or we can try msn
What make you sure that your ethernet is not detected? Have you tried ifconfig command? Go to YaST and from there add the network connections. And as your title says, Connecting to Internet is a very common query. Search this forum for older posts. There are also tutorials on how to connect to internet.
Hi Zaemon
welcome to the wonderful world of Linux!
I recently purchased an ASUS P5Q motherboard, and the ethernet gave me problems as well…
The P5Q-E has a different ethernet controller than the P5Q. (I believe the P5Q-E uses a Marvell Yukon Ethernet controller–but confirm that for yourself before installing any drivers).
First thing you can do is check in YaST → Software Management to see if there is a driver available. (do a search for marvell). If not, I would check out the manufacturer’s website to see if they have drivers which you can download and compile yourself.
Just did a quick google for “Marvell Yukon Linux drivers” and it appears that Marvell DOES have drivers but as I said before, confirm that that is actually the ethernet controller on your Motherboard before downloading and installing the drivers)
run the following command from a terminal and post the output here in the thread
lspci | grep Ethernet
the " | " is a pipe,(usually shift + backslash) used to send the output of a command into another command. remember that “Ethernet” has a capital “E” (everything is case sensitive in linux!). Hope that helps!
Hi. No internet? That’s bad! You said that “linux doesn’t reconize my ethernet”. What kind of network card is this? When you are root you can find out with
hwinfo --netcard
Post the output here for further help. (To avoid copy and paste you can also redirect the output to a textfile “hwinfo --netcard > /home/you/somefile.txt” for example) With the information given in the rows Model, Vendor and Device, you can start searching the openSUSE HardwareCompatibilityList Hardware - openSUSE, other linux forums or the whole internet for a solution ;). As sahaittanmoy mentioned, there should be plenty of posts here or somewhere else. But don’t hesitate asking if you don’t find an answer.
Another very important thing is how you want to connect to the internet. Are you using a DSL modem (pppoe) or is your computer connected to a router (dhcp or not)?
Oh, pimanac wrote a much more helful post while I was distracted. I’ll send mine anyway. Good luck and have a lot of fun!