I installed Suse 12.1 and I only get some internet with it. My Lan card is an RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller IP address assigned using DHCP4. I don’t know a whole lot about the Internet and if I am missing something here please inquire me how I can get the whole internet. I can only get to the first page e.g.if in google I type in “Skype” or any name for that matter the network only shows how to get it or whatever and when I click on the link I get a page saying the server cannot be found and this goes for any page I click on any link so any clue as to what I need to do the wisdom will not go unnoticed and a big thank you from my HEART so any help would be nice. :-o
Chris
hi Chris, i don’t know where to begin in trying to help you…first lets
get some more info, please:
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say your operating system, version and bit (32/64)
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provide your desktop environment and version
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tell us: did this computer and connection work as you expected it to
for some days, weeks or months and then suddenly it just started not
giving you the entire internet? if so, tell use what you did just before
it stopped working (like did you change browsers? install new software?
update your system? what?)… -
you say you “type in ‘Skype’” and i suppose you type it into a
browser, please tell us the name of the browser and its version -
where in that browser (in what blank) do you “type in ‘Skype’”? take a
screen shot with the Print Screen" button; upload the image to
paste.opensuse.org; and return its URL link to us -
then, when you see the page you describe as “in google … the network
only shows how to get it or whatever”, please take a screen shot of that
page, before you click on a link; and upload it to paste.opensuse.org
and return its URL also -
then when you get the the error message from “when I click on the link
I get a page saying the server cannot be found” please do a screen shot
of it also, and give us the URL -
tell us, how you are connected to the internet? like,
- are you wired to an ethernet jack in a library, internet cafe,
McDonalds, an apartment building, school campus dorm, office where you
work)
2 or, wired to your own router in your own home, connected directly to
an Internet Service Provider which you pay to connect to…
3 or, are you in a country/office/school which sometimes (or anytime)
blocks some portion of the news or whatever from the outside?
[if the connection is controlled by someone else, maybe they are
controlling what you can see]
the point is: maybe someone is controlling your connection (a parent, a
campus director, and office IT person, a country’s ruler) who doesn’t
want you typing in a word like “porn” or “free speech” or “President
[name] is a coward” and . . .
anyway, that is a possibility we need to explore–because your situation
there sounds kinda unusual…
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dd
My OS is opensuse 12.1 32 bit the newest one I live on my own and pay for my internet connection as dsl I control the internet and am not restricted by any means. My desktop is XFCE and I tried with KDE and still no luck prior to this I was using MINT 64Bit but because of it being too easy I wanted a challenge so its either Suse or Debian but The one thing I don’t know how to do is install the files to make My nic card work on both Suse and Debian(I kinda figure the so called drivers are messed up though I can’t be sure cause I dont know how to get the files installed in Suse) give me little internet connection. The internet in Mint worked fine and that is mint 13. I use XCHAT and Firefox 14 and I can’t figure out how to show you the things you asked for cause I been up 48+Hours and my brain ain’t working the way it normally does. Goodnight and Goodbye
Chris 8-/
p.s the reason I think the nic card is messed up cause its using the dvd version of 12.1that they have on their website I DON"T KNOW Maybe I should try the newer one. The development version or aptly called 12.2http://forums.opensuse.org/images/icons/icon5.png
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:'(
> Goodnight and Goodbye
ok, you eliminated some of the possibilities (proxy; outside
controller blocking some data/sites; and, differences between DEs)
still i wonder if your 48 hour non-sleeping brain will be better able to
help us help you when you awaken, like:
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maybe your problem is a failed install? did you, before burning the
DVD, checksum (like md5 or sha1) test the downloaded iso to make sure
it was good? and then burn at the slowest speed possible on good media?
and then do this before beginning the install: http://tinyurl.com/3qde66h -
if you did those things, and didn’t have an error during install, then
i wonder if you have run YaST Online Update (YOU) yet? if not, perhaps
there was a bug in the initial pressing of 12.1 which has been fixed for
your hardware and it is just waiting for you to run YOU… -
i wonder about your install because i still do not understand how you
can get a list of hits from Google and then not be able to get to the
sites on that list (which is what i think you tried to describe as
your problem–if that is not your problem then please try to again help
us understand your problem) -
and, why do you think there is a problem with your NIC when it is
working to get you to Google? (by the way, i guess the correct
so-called-driver is loaded or you would not get to Google in the first
place…) -
which is why i wanted to see the error message you mentioned…
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since this might be an IPv6 problem you might find relief by using
Google’s public DNSs in /etc/resolv.conf, just comment out the current
lines beginning with nameserver and add two as root and save
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
- to post the screen shots just press “Print Screen” SysRQ" button (left
of the “scroll lock” on a full size, IBM standard keyboard [you have not
told us much about your hardware so i guess yours is similar to mine])
a pop up lets you save the shot, and then just upload to
http://tinyurl.com/69dzb3w
i would not at this point recommend you start over with 12.2–that is
still testing level software and your described symptoms are none i’ve
heard before with any previous or current openSUSE so i can’t imagine it
was “fixed” in 12.2 RC2.
finally, if your “Goodnight and Goodbye” means you are done with
openSUSE, or me: next time you wanna try the stuff here, get some sleep
along the way please…and i’m sorry i couldn’t guess what your exact
problem was (out of the many possibles) so therefore i had no idea
what to guess to fix it…
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dd