Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Jostein Berntsen <jbernts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17.06.04,08:44, sinan kaptanoglu wrote:
> My network connection must have worked once (almost
> a week ago) since the installation program was able
> to connect to Suse and download some patches for 9.1.
> 
> The connection no longer works, possibly because I
> configured my network card using YaST.  My network
> card is configured for DHCP, and it is automatically
> detected, configured and most importantly activated
> by YaST.  Every step is a success.  Yet I cannot
> reach a single URL outside my LAN.  Every one of
> them returns a message like:
>     An error occurred while loading http://www.yahoo.com
>     Unknown host www.yahoo.com
> 
> Does that mean that name servers were not configured
> correctly?  I am supposed to get name servers directly
> from DHCP server.  My default gateway address (which is
> RT314 router for my local LAN) is set correctly as
> 192.168.0.1.  There are 3 other computers on my home
> LAN, and those have no difficulty connecting to the
> internet or to each other.
> 
> Can anybody suggest some possible actions to diagnose
> and fix this problem?
> 

Try to run "dhcpcd" as root, and ping some url afterwards to check. 

- Jostein

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Jostein Berntsen <jbernts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>