Ok, this is a strange one.
I just installed openSUSE 12.1 on my laptop which required installing the Broadcom wireless drivers. That worked and I am able to get connected.
In Firefox I am able to get to navigate only to some openSUSE sites such as the base site, this forums, etc.
The problem is if I try to go to any other website (such as Google, or my wife’s) I get Server not found error.
Now, I can run a Ping to “google.com” and it comes back with the IP address just fine. If I put that IP address into Firefox’s Address bar the page comes up until I click on a link that uses the domain name, and not the IP address.
If I use #ping6, which runs on ipv6 instead of #ping that runs on ipv4, it cannot find the host.
So this leads me to believe that the system is trying to navigate via ipv6, which goes to nowhere. I had this problem with Fedora 16 and once I applied the suggested fix, which was entering into /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
blacklist ipv6
install ipv6 /bin/true
Unfortunately this isn’t working with openSUSE so I’m back to being stumped! I am not very experienced with networking so I am even more out of my element on what to do!
Help! So far this is the only mar on openSUSE 12.1 and I am hoping to be able to use it for a while!