I am at a hotel in China where I can't get onto the internet with linux. [snip] I am connected with a cable connection via ethernet, and can get linux to connect to the hotel network via knetwork manager.
So you do have a connection then. Do you have name resolution working? Try "dig www.opensuse.org" from the command line. Then try "ping www.opensuse.org".
If both of those work, you're on-line.
/Per
-- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.9°C)
Alternatively, check if you're on the same subnet as the hotel access page (or the hotel gateway); if at all possible, go with DHCP instead of static IPs. And disable any firewalls or IPtables for the time being...
Oh, and disable IPv6 of course...
Hi, I have tried to use DHCP to configure the connection to the ethernet. It only seems to work when I boot up the computer. Other than that I can only get a connection to the network when I put in the set of IP address numbers that the hotel IT guy used. But neither way will it connect to the internet, in fact I am not sure exactly if it is connected to any kind of network. The knetworkmanager is colored when I boot from shutdown, and if I connect with the IP address numbers the icon displays the little mouse icon that shows an ethernet connection. Yet with the dig command, I get the reply connection timed out, no servers could be reached. With the ping command, it says unknown host. ipv6 is disabled, I disabled that when I installed 11.1. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org