At 01:56 PM 10/22/2005 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
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YaST-->Network Devices-->select your card in the lower area and then click on the change button. Highlight your card (you may only have one) and then click on the edit button. Under "Setup Method" select DHCP Click on Routing-->fill in the IP address of your router as the Default Gateway. Click on the Next button and then the Finish Button.
Your networking should now work, if not let us know so that we can help you further. You may have to make some changes for your DNS servers and your Hostname/Domain Name.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
What I have done so far: I found out how to get into yast graphical mode, from a console. I don't know how to do it from the desktop. At any rate, I followed your instructions as nearly as possible. Yast found the network card by itself. I didn't have to look in the lower area. (I looked anyway, and my "card" isn't there.) It automatically selected DHCP and it found the ip address of the router by itself for the default gateway. The following available command is not "next" but "OK". There does not seem to be a "finish" command. I forget what came next, but somehow I got back to the yast main window and closed it. At this point I tried to ping the router itself (should work, but did not) and tried to ping an outside source which I can ping from Windows or the other Linux machine. Somewhere it said that the network starts at boot, so I will reboot into Suse and see if the network starts, and I'll report back either way. Someone asked about the results of ifconfig and lsmod. Unfortunately, I do not have any way of forwarding those, since I can't save them to NTFS, and I can't send them direct from Suse--no network! Can I somehow save them to a .txt file in XP, from which I could copy and paste to this mailer? Whoever it was also asked for the type of Ethernet hardware--its Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet, part of the MOBO, but Yast seems to be able to find it OK. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.361 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/146 - Release Date: 10/21/2005