nVidia MCP61

English Network/Internet
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This is the network card. I did a fresh installation of Open Suse 11.4 on a friend’s desktop. Suse won’t connect to internet. I am used getting instant connection through DHCP with no problems and without additional configuring of network on latest Linux(Suse) distributions. I didn’t have to deal with such problems for years, even on Solaris on laptops. This is not so old network card. As I don’t have direct access to friend’s PC at the moment, I will mention that ifconfig recognized eth0 device and eth1. I tried without DHCP , entering IP 192.168.1.1 and Subnet 255.255.255.0, that didn’t work as well. I have used Yast network settings, and there are eth0 and eth1 listed. tried ifup, no errors. Not sure any drivers are needed as ethernet card IS recognized.

Also Windows 7 on the same machine (dual boot) is connected through DHCP. So what other option is there for Linux network connection, if DHCP doesn’t work, manual assign doesn’t work, but device is recognized?

If you need any info returned through CLI, ask.

Suggestions needed, thank you.

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So this machine?
Is it an on board network card?
Or is it both a PCI and onboard (I ask this because I have both and have eth0 and eth1)

I too never have had any problems and still don’t. So it is strange.

Did you use a DVD to install?
If you happen to have a Live CD also or used one, does it connect if you boot to a live session.

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To check if all is fine with the drivers :

lspci -nnk

For IP address and routing information :

/sbin/ifconfig

route -n

For the DNS setup :

cat /etc/resolv.conf

Also trying to ping 8.8.4.4 might be useful to determine whether You actually can reach the internet.

Best regards,
Greg

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Try configuring both cards in Yast (you should see two) with static IP addresses, take 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as nameservers, the IP of your router as the gateway address.