I am an Ubuntu convert. Installed 11.2 on Dell 1737 studio and I cannot go online either through wireless or wired. Wired eth0 is there and I can ping my router. Also can ping the laptop from the office computer. However wireless modules don’t seem to loaded at all. B43 is not blacklisted in ssb. I can’t post results because I cannot get online through the box. I am on another machine posting this. I installed the 64 bit version of 11.2. Should I try re-install with 32 bit? I need to get this laptop going for my biz email at least with wired connection and I’ll deal with wireless later.
Can’t resolve the host because it can’t connect to internet. wired or wireless. I am on my local network and can print using cups through wired connection. But no internet.
Ok. I am plugged into the ethernet port on the laptop. Network manager shows the system is connected to eth0. On 5 of my other computers I can ping this box and I can share folders with the other machines. I can print to my remote printer using cups through the network. However, this laptop will not connect to the net using DHCP-auto.
Sorry by “net” I meant the internet. Before I migrated to Suse last night from Kubuntu everything was working fine. Wired , wirless both worked. I am downloaded 11.2 32bit and am considering trying it instead of 64bit.
Never mind. I’ll have to go back to the hacked-up Kubuntu. I don’t understand why Canonical can make this work and Novell can’t. I can understand wireless being a pain, but ethernet? I really wanted KDE in Opensuse but I gotta move to something that works.
On 04/21/2010 12:26 PM, rs422 wrote:
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> Never mind. I’ll have to go back to the hacked-up Kubuntu. I don’t
> understand why Canonical can make this work and Novell can’t. I can
> understand wireless being a pain, but ethernet? I really wanted KDE in
> Opensuse but I gotta move to something that works.
You should have made it clear that you could connect to your local LAN
but not the internet earlier. You have either the DNS or routing bug
from the initial distribution of 11.2. If you want to solve this, post
the output of
Sorry I thought I made it pretty clear in the first post I made.
I tried your command line but evidently something is amiss because all I get back is invalid option. I am one computer running to the other so maybe I mis-typed something but I tried the command different ways and did not get a valid output.
I’d really like to get this going. I hate Kubuntu.
On 04/21/2010 01:26 PM, rs422 wrote:
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> Sorry I thought I made it pretty clear in the first post I made.
> I tried your command line but evidently something is amiss because all
> I get back is invalid option. I am one computer running to the other so
> maybe I mis-typed something but I tried the command different ways and
> did not get a valid output.
>
> I’d really like to get this going. I hate Kubuntu.
It should have been “/sbin/route -n”, where the option is minus en. Of
course, do not enter the quotation marks.
“I cannot go online either through wireless or wired. Wired eth0 is there and I can ping my router. Also I can ping the laptop from the office computer …” rs422 at 13.24
“You should have made it clear that you could connect to your local LAN but not the internet earlier …” lwfinger at 17.50
On 04/21/2010 04:06 PM, miniminor wrote:
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> “I cannot go online either through wireless or wired. Wired eth0 is
> there and I can ping my router. Also I can ping the laptop from the
> office computer …” rs422 at 13.24
>
> “You should have made it clear that you could connect to your local LAN
> but not the internet earlier …” lwfinger at 17.50
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> Am I missing something here?
Yes, I think so. He can connect to the local network. Thus the problem
is either routing or name serving - the distribution media for 11.2
contain both bugs. The driver is OK. Helping involves finding which of
the problems is at fault.
Thanks for responding. To be honest I am updating a side-by-side install of Mandriva with quite a number of packages to go. I’ll boot back into Opensuse later and post results. I’d rather use Suse but I have to go with what works quick. My boss is on my back to get this laptop up for the new sales manager. But will post back results later this evening.
I got the laptop to surf through Firefox by editing the config file in Firefox disabling IPV6. Now I can surf but I cannot download any updates from the repository. Manual update will not connect. Tried to update zypper and it won’t resolve.
I can ping Google. I read last night this is a bug and the fix is in the updates for DHCP. But cannot find anything else.
Any thoughts? I can now post outputs on the box if that helps.
You have missed the point entirely. You state “He can connect to the local network” as though this is something you have just discovered, when in fact rs422 told you that at the outset. What I am looking for is an explanation for your reproachful “You should have made it clear … earlier”. Didn’t you bother to read the entire thread?
However, apparently only certain chipsets are affected. I actually did a retrograde install of 11.2 x64 and was able to connect right off. Wired is nVidia nForce MCP73 gigabit; wireless is Accton/SMC Wireless-G USB. Both are connected to the same router (Netgear WNR-3500v1), and I used the NET ISO to do an Internet install.