Leap/Vodastation LAN-access

I have problems connecting my computer via LAN through a vodastation router to the internet. The vodastation works (I am sending this message through its WLAN-access channel). Here are my settings for the network/LAN with the following subsections:

global: Wicked service; hostname=AUTO; standard route via DHCP

overview: 82579LM Gigabit network connection (Lewisville) ip-address=DHCP device=eth0

hostname: TL-WR80in2N; domain name=BG; attach hostname to loopback and set hostname via DHCP yes: eth0; nameservers 192.168.0.1 + 192.168.2.1

routing: standard ip4 gateway=192.168.0.1 (obtained from vodastation settings as gateway ip-address

I also checked the entries in nsswitch.config. They are a bit strange:
hosts: mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
networks: files dns

Thank you for your comments, BGliss

I have problems connecting my computer via LAN through a vodastation router to the internet.

Please be a little more specific. When connected to the LAN, please capture and report the following output…

ip address
ip route

Can you ping the gateway address ok?

ping 192.168.0.1

Can you ping a well-known internet address ok?

ping 8.8.8.8

Can you ping by domain name ok?

ping google.com

thank you, I’ll try tomorrow and submit the results, BG

I can ping ip addresses in standard format (8.8.8.8 and 192.160.1). I cannot ping an addresses in htlm-format (www.google.com).
I checked the LAN settings of the vodastation, again. It offers two names which I interpreted as being host names: TL-WR802N and linux-zz0-99.
When I use the second as hostname in YAST’s netork settings, it asks for a domain name. Since my computer is not part of a domain, .I’m at loss.
With the second I can enter any name as a domain name, but I still don’ get connected, properly.

I hope the situation is more clear, now.

Again, thanks for your comments, BG

When you can ping by IP address, but not by domain/hostname (that is not called HTML format), you have a DNS problem.

Please show

cat /etc/resolv.conf

and maybe also

ls -l /etc/resolv.conf

Another thing is that you were asked to execute some commands. The idea behind this is that you not only do so, but that you then post here waht you see on the terminal by copy/paste of the complete action. That is the prompt-command line, all output and including the new prompt line. You paste that between CODE tags in your post.
An example is here: Using CODE tags Around your paste.

And when for some reason you do not want or can not provide this, then please say so. As you did now, there was no output at all provided by you, only some story about your conclusions. To be honest, many people her do not trust stories, they only trust the raw computer output.

I guess, we are getting closer:

**cat /etc/resolv.conf yields among other comments:

NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEARCHLIST

NETCONFIG-DNS-STATIC-SERVERS**

NETCONFIG_DNS_FORWARDER

#or disable DNS configuration updates via netconfig by setting

**NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=‘’


ls -l resolv.conf yields: rw-r–r–l root 795 30.march 12:09 /etc/resolv.conf

**The date seems to be the installation date.Any idea and thanks again? BG

Sorry, but you missed the idea of the CODE tags. I will try to tell you a second time.
There is an important, but not easy to find feature on the forums.

Please in the future use CODE tags around copied/pasted computer text in a post. It is the # button in the tool bar of the post editor. When applicable copy/paste complete, that is including the prompt, the command, the output and the next prompt.

An example is here: Using CODE tags Around your paste.

Now we see malformed and incomplete information. :frowning:

What you could do is (as root)

rm /etc/resolv.conf

and reboot.

I could not remove /etc/resolv.conf as root. The system response was that I was not authorized even though ‘whoami’ told me that was indeed root.

Here are the contents of the file:

###### /etc/resolv.conf file autogenerated by netconfig!
#
# Before you change this file manually, consider to define the
# static DNS configuration using the following variables in the
# /etc/sysconfig/network/config file:
#     NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEARCHLIST
#     NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SERVERS
#     NETCONFIG_DNS_FORWARDER
# or disable DNS configuration updates via netconfig by setting:
#     NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=''
#
# See also the netconfig(8) manual page and other documentation.
#
# Note: Manual change of this file disables netconfig too, but
# may get lost when this file contains comments or empty lines
# only, the netconfig settings are same with settings in this
# file and in case of a "netconfig update -f" call.
# Please remove (at least) this line when you modify the file!

Please, please, please. Always show all, do not tell (or do not alone tell), but show. Including the commands and the output.

It is very strange that you can not remove that file., but you just telling does not help, we see nothing!

And the listing is OK, but again the command line (including the prompt) is not shown, thus we can only guess you listed the correct file.

We can not look over your shoulder, we depend complete on what you show. Please help us to help you.

And the /etc/resolve you show is in fact empty. The more reason to remove it and let it be created fresh.

Thus again, start a terminal emulator (or work from the console) and to these commands:

su -
ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
cat /etclresolv.conf
rm /etc/resolv.conf
exit

and then post all starting with the line with the su command up to and including the line with the exit command.

Ok, I forgot that can not copy/paste because you have no connection to the forums.
But it was four (4) days ago and we are doing other things here with other threads all the time, am=nd n=maybe do not read whole threads all the time from the very beginning. again and again.

BTW, can you wotk with the forums using 195.135.221.161 in your browser?

First of all thank you! I did as you told. Being a computer professional all my life I should not have trusted screen commands but use the console. So, after I had typed in your suggested commands I could not resist and reboot. Wow, everything worked. I include the results of your commands, below.

     
Directory: /home/bernd
/home/bernd> su -
Passwort: 
TL-WR802N:~ # ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 795 Mar 30 12:09 /etc/resolv.conf
TL-WR802N:~ # cat /etc/resolv.conf
### /etc/resolv.conf file autogenerated by netconfig!
#
# Before you change this file manually, consider to define the
# static DNS configuration using the following variables in the
# /etc/sysconfig/network/config file:
#     NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEARCHLIST
#     NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SERVERS
#     NETCONFIG_DNS_FORWARDER
# or disable DNS configuration updates via netconfig by setting:
#     NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=''
#
# See also the netconfig(8) manual page and other documentation.
#
# Note: Manual change of this file disables netconfig too, but
# may get lost when this file contains comments or empty lines
# only, the netconfig settings are same with settings in this
# file and in case of a "netconfig update -f" call.
#
### Please remove (at least) this line when you modify the file!
TL-WR802N:~ # rm /etc/resolv.conf
TL-WR802N:~ # exit
logout
/home/bernd>    

So, everything OK now? I am glad it worked.