I hope that you can help me. Let me explain the problem.
First I had OpenSuse 10.3 installed on my system. There my network card worked out of the box and I didn’t need to configure anything. Today I wanted to install OpenSuse 11. I did it and all worked fine the install was done within about 20minutes and no errors occured. So far so good.
Now I was on the KDE Desktop and tried to start Firefox and connect to a webpage. It didn’t work. So I tried to find the reason for this problem. The last two hours I tried this but it still won’t work.
I have a AsRock eSATA32SLI Mainboard with an OnBoard Realtek NIC (RTL8168). It makes no difference if I try to use DHCP or if I tell him an static IP. Both won’t work. Either I can’t ping my router.
First I had IPv6 activated but the system told me that there is no router present which understands ipv6. So I deactivated this feature. Now the system gave me the information that eth0 is linked up. But it still won’t work.
I have asked a friend of mine who is pretty familiar with Linux Systems but he has also no idea where to search for the problem.
Now I want to ask you to help me. Thanks in advance.
I have a similar problem with a system upgraded from 10.2 to 11.0
I have to restart the network with /etc/init.d/network restart.
Then it works properly. Must be logged onto a terminal window as root to do this. The only thing I see is that it reports pan0 is not configured…which I believe is my bluetooth adapter(not positive though) never the less this is the only thing that seems to get it going. If you get any hints, as you work through this please post them.
I had the same problem here.
I upgraded from 10.2 and it worked just fine for sometime. Now it is unable to obtain an ip by DHCP and if I give it one the network do not respond. It don’t ping. I’m not shure what is the problem. If I found something I’ll post here.
Try this:
Click on search and enter 8168 and you will see posts
of some others that had this problem. (Some of them
seemed to find a solution, I think.)
[Some seem to say it had to do with conflict with their
wireless device, so if you have one, try temporarily
blacklisting the wireless device’s driver. Just a guess.]
Thanks for trying to help me but a distri which is not able to get a NIC running out of the box is not the wright one for me. So I decided to install Arch Linux in the next days.
