Hey Vu, great going. You are no longer a newbie but will soon be an expert. Donald thaiv@brandeis.edu wrote:

Hey All

So I figured it out... I must extend a big thanks to Donald for his assistance. So it was a problem w/ my modules.config file located in /etc/modules.config. Even though I did use Yast2 to install the Nvidia drivers, it never changed the module.config file. if you have this problem, login as root & view the file w/ your favorite text editor. Search for "eth0".. there should be two entries for it. Make sure they both read: alias eth0 nvnet

After I changed that & rebooted.. bammm.... internet connection! man.. it feels good to have worked that out.. once again, thanks to all those who responded..

cheers, vu

Quoting Donald Correll :

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Vu, I am afraid I am not much help. All I could find is NVNet. It looks like you need to do an uninstall. Donald

thaiv@brandeis.edu wrote:

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Alright... So I check to see if the Lan is set to Auto when it boots & indeed it

is..

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I've tried booting into linux fresh.. "cold-start" style... nah dah.. I've tried installing the .rpm from the command line instead of using

Yast2 &

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it tells me the rpm has already been installed...

Now there is one thing of interest here... So even after I install/reinstalled the rpm... I checked in Yast2 for the

set

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up of my network card.. under hardware details, edit and module name ...

it is

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listed as being "8137too", which is what i changed it to previously from

a

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post that I had seen for Suse 8.1 or 7.1. So maybe.. this is where the problem lies.. that even when installing the rpm Yast2 has never changed

this

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value to what it should for the actually lan connection.

Donald or any one who has a standard A7N8X motherboard, could you please

check

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to see what you have listed in your module name for the lan and any other

info

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that is listed there.

Donald do you remember when you installed Suse onto your A7N8X board

wheither

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it detected the lan to begin w/. I know it didn't but instead of skipping

the

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detection, i went ahead & chose the realtek module that was avaible on

the

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list at that time thinking it would work. & since installing the rpm

never

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changed my config it kept looking for the wrong thing.. or maybe i'm just full of crap since i'm a newbie & it should have autodetected it by now!?

anyways.. if some one could provide w/ some info on the module name I'll

give

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it a go tomorrow when i get home & will let you know..

thanks & cheers, vu