Paul Benjamin wrote:
Ok for web browsing and client side stuff if you are using the personal firewall you shouldn't have any problems. The config for it is at:
Yast2->System->Editor for /etc/sysconfig Files->Network->Firewall-> personal-firewall
You put in the interfaces you want to reject inbound probes.
If you are running the full firewall it is at:
Yast2->Security and Users->Firewall
I haven't used it so you are on your own from there.
SuSE firewalls should not have blocked outbound connections unless you have been playing with it or may playing with iptables at the command line. The next thing to try is do you get a ping responce from your ISP? Like this:
pben@linux:~> ping cox-internet.com PING cox-internet.com (66.76.2.80) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from pw1.cox-internet.com (66.76.2.80): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=67.1 ms 64 bytes from pw1.cox-internet.com (66.76.2.80): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=330 ms 64 bytes from pw1.cox-internet.com (66.76.2.80): icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=152 ms
--- cox-internet.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2016ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 67.136/183.173/330.375/109.703 ms pben@linux:~> pben@linux:~>
This should tell you if the DNS lookup is working and if you are sending and receiving ok.
On Sunday 29 June 2003 05:25 pm, Marcia wrote:
Paul Benjamin wrote:
So do you have an IP address, what was the resulf of the ifconfig?
On Sunday 29 June 2003 03:02 pm, Marcia wrote:
Thank you for your immediate response and help. I checked iwconfig and it recognizes my card as eth1 and it looks like everything should be working. I checked the firewall situation and it looks like it is not enabled . Any other thoughts here?
Sincerely,
Marcia
Thanks again for helping. I checked ifconfig and got a good readout for the card. Everything looks fine that I can tell. My ip address is correct. I am using dhcp, too . How can I tell for sure that I do not have a firewall going? It appears that I do not, but I would not necessarily know if it is enabled by default.
Thanks,
Marcia
Dear All, Thank you so much for your help. I have my wireless setup correctly now and I am on the net.:) I had to make a fair amount of changes to accomplish this. It turned out that my card needed the orinoco driver instead of the prism2 one that it was given. I had to use cardctl ident to get the exact info for my card then I added that to the /etc/pcmcia/config file. After that I edited the /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless file to add the correct options. Then I did the pcmcia restart. After all of that I went into Yast2 and deleted my old wireless setup and started over with the new one. I chose pcmcia, wireless, filled in the correct mode and essid. I added the correct domain name and nameservers. Afer all that I shut down, restarted and voila I was on the internet. Hurrrrrayyyy!!!:) I was hoping that Yast2 would correctly setup my card without having to configure all of those files, but I guess 8.2 still has not been able to bind the orinoco driver to some cards yet. At least it works. In other words the problem was that Suse wanted to use the wrong driver for my card. I am happy that it works now. Thanks alot for all of your help. Sincerely, Marcia