I asked for help in the Network/Internet section and had no replies, hopefuly someone here can help me. I have Open Suse 11 installed and use a dsl modem for connecting to the internet. I don’t know how to set up my connection in Suse. Can someone help?
What brand and model is your DSL modem? If it’s a modem/router, chances are it handles the login and password for you and all you have to do is set up your computer(s) to get an address from the router by DHCP.
If a laptop, networkmanager is probably the way to go, but if a desktop, DHCP on boot would be appropriate. All this can be set up from YaST > Network devices > Network card (not > DSL, that’s only if you have a dumb modem).
PS: You should still have posted in the network forum, not here. You should have bumped your previous post if you needed to after a suitable wait.
Can you tell us what you are using to manage your connections and what type it is? What I mean is are you using NetworkManager or ifup and is your computer connected directly to your DSL or are you using wireless to connect? If you are using wireless is the driver for your card installed? Also I would like to point out that you might get better help from the wireless sub-forum if this is the case.
If you are using NetworkManager, if I remember correctly this is the default, then you should have a GUI to manage your connections, in KDE this is called kNetworkManager not sure what it is called in GNOME. You may have to tell it to create a new connection for your device, should be something like eth0 or wlan0 depending on if this is wired or wireless, this process if very stright foreward just give it what it wants to know and hit “Connect and Save”.
If using ifup to manage your connections then chances are you are not using wireless so to connect try running this as root
ifup eth0
and as a test to see if you are online try pinging someone on the network, like Google,
ping www.google.com
.
I hope this helps, and if I left something out I hope someone catches me on this I’m not fully awake yet, and still have yet to get some coffee into my system.
Well those replies were quick.
However no go.
I am using Gnome, no router, just a straight dsl modem from my ethernet card.
I browsed the threads on the Network/Internet group and found another user with a similar problem and followed the instructions given to them. That was going to Yast and Network Settings and went through all that and seemed well until the end and it wanted to download Kinternet. Well that wasn’t going to happen, (cart before the horse?) so it failed. I still have the live cd if it can be of any use.
Why not post the modem model number so that we can double check?
I don’t know if the LiveCD includes kinternet or the PPP software. Are you able to get hold of the DVD? For sure the needed packages will be there.
I don’t have the DVD
The dsl is Comtrend CT-301 (3) ADSL
This was supplied by my ISP
Worked fine in Ubuntu, just used “pppoeconf” but that’s not here.
I’m a noob.
The network packages are on the Live-CD. Here’s where the lists are Package List - openSUSE. Both Gnome & KDE use a back-end package, smpppd (the network daemon that monitors the connection) and a front-end, in KDE its kinternet and in Gnome I think (not sure) that it’s gnome-nettool.
The Live-CD cannot be converted into a software repository as can the DVD; it is a compressed “ramdisk” - I’m not aware of a way to extract its contents.
During the installation there should be a step for configuring the network, including your straight dsl connection. Perhaps you missed that?
Alternatively, if you can get to the net elsewhere, you can go to the online repository, download the packages above (which are small), copy them to your opensuse installaton, and then install them. Then use YaST/Network Devices/DSL to configure it.
See my reply in the other thread (that’s your punishment for being impatient and making two threads). If you didn’t have to do any PPP setup in XP, you shouldn’t have to in Linux either and the pppoe in Ubuntu is a furphy.
Yeah, guess I deserved that. Glad to see you keep close eye on different sections.
I got it.
I looked in the file system for gnome-nettool, found it and ran it and it was not looking for eth0 it was looking at something else, I forget what. I set it to eth0 and here I am lookin at you.
Thank you much.
Have a lot to learn about this, so don’t go away, you never know where I may pop up.