Internet problem

This is a weird problem and one I can’t help but get fustrated at. I have a dell 1501, I updated from 11.0 to 11.1 beta 2. Everything went fine except for some bluetooth issues, which I planned on solving post update. But now I have no internet.

My wireless card works, detects the wireless connection and even connects to it, I can access my router from this connection, same thing with the wired setup. My problem is that I can not access the internet. If I run suse config on the network device, I get a network not started error. But the network is up and running right now. I thought firewall issue so I shut it down and no change. No matter what settings I change or things I edit I end up in the same spot, Local connection only. I have another machine running 11.0 that connects fine to the internet, and yes my router settings are all correct. Any help would be great, thanks.

Try using Yast to put the IP addresses of the name servers in the page at Yast → net devices → Tab=Hostname/DNS and the the IP address of the router in the gateway setting at Tab=Routing

now we are getting somewhere…If I ping yahoo from my router and enter that IP address I can access it, so it’s something with my hostname setup, any ideas.

I had the same problem myself, after much random attempts I think the following command eventually worked.

dhcpcd wlan0

You can also try ‘dhcpcd-test wlan0’ to see if you are getting what you need. It may say that dhcpd is running already and give you a link to the PID (/var/run/dhcpcd-wlan0.pid), if so then kill the process with that pid and retry the command. I use ifup method by the way…

hope this helps someone.