I set up a PC with Opensuse 11.1 to display an html page on startup after login. I am useing KDE. The page is being “broadcast” from another device. Sort of like accessing the firmware for a router, ie: the device is not actually on the internet, it is local. The device has an address of 192.168.1.10. If I plug the PC intot the internet I get the internet wich tells me the hardware works. But when I plug into this device and I attempt to ping the address I get “network is unreachable”. I have set up a new connection in the network settings but it still doesn’t seem to be connected to anything…? I am fairly new to linux so please go easy on me. Thanks.
Seem like your PC and the other device are not on the same network.
On 12/07/2009 07:46 AM, provinceautomation wrote:
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> I set up a PC with Opensuse 11.1 to display an html page on startup
> after login. I am useing KDE. The page is being “broadcast” from
> another device. Sort of like accessing the firmware for a router, ie:
> the device is not actually on the internet, it is local. The device has
> an address of 192.168.1.10. If I plug the PC intot the internet I get
> the internet wich tells me the hardware works. But when I plug into
> this device and I attempt to ping the address I get “network is
> unreachable”. I have set up a new connection in the network settings
> but it still doesn’t seem to be connected to anything…? I am fairly
> new to linux so please go easy on me. Thanks.
You have a number of misconceptions regarding “plugging into the
internet”, etc. I suspect your problem is that one way of plugging
provides DHCP and the other does not.
Sorry, When I plug the PC into our office network I can access the internet (this is better, correct?), addresses outside of our network through our ISP. As far as the devices being on a different network, I am using a 3 meter network cable and plugging directly into the other device. I can plag a windows laptop into the same device and it works. Firefox is telling me I am “offline”?
Plug it in. Run in console as root.
ifconfig
netstat -nr
Paste the out put here, with demo pings to. Doesnt’ MS have a universal plug & play, zeroconf style system? I have opposite issue though, I can’t get Windows networking working with Windows boxes, it “just works” though with a configured Linux server.