hello i’m using opensuse 11.3 and can’t connect to the internet, my eth0 interface (which would be my modem i suppose) is found and when i “activate” it with ifup eth0, it gets stuck waiting for data (says so in ifstatus). If i try with knetworkmanager it is also stuck and doesn’t connect to eth0. If i try to make it connect at boot, it doesn’t work either. I think the problem might be that in windows xp my modem has a “limited connection” but i can connect with my pppoe password anyway, but opensuse won’t let me connect until it finds eth0 is working correctly which it never will because of how the internet company configures the modems i think. I don’t know with which command i could “force” the pppoe connection even without a good connection to the modem, maybe that would work. But on the other hand, with other distros i can connect just fine so i don’t know really… Hope you can help, thanks
Are you really using opensuse 11.3? (11.3 was available on July 15) With opensuse 11.2 you can configure your LAN modem, which is connected to the eth0 interface, with Yast as a DSL device. I did it and it worked fine. (Your ethernet card has to be configured, start connection with kinternet)
But now, with openSuse 11.3, it seems that it isn’t possible to use a LAN modem. I posted a thread.