On Sunday 23 October 2005 23:12, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote: <munch> I rebooted Suse. No joy, no network.
Here's what I have done further. I now have the Linspire mail program on line, so I have 2 computers working. But I do NOT have networking on the Suse box. I was able to ping the ethernet hardware with a loopback code-- 127.0.0.1--and that worked OK. (I have also figured out how to get to YaST from the desktop, and how to add its icon there.)
The loopback has nothing to do with a physical network interface. pinging that means nothing.
If anyone needs to know what ifconfig or lsmod have to say, you'll have to tell me what to look for. I could probably type in the ifconfig output,
Well until you do, we don't even know if the interface (eth0) is there! Enter: # /sbin/ifconfig -a in a shell (don't type the #) and report the first two lines of each interface here. I expect to see eth0, lo and sit0.
but I sure can't type in the page-and-a-quarter of codes and numbers from lsmod.
A little better description of the ethernet hardware: Yast says it's Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet.
The result I get when I try to ping the router is "Network is unreachable"
If no-one can come up with a solution, I'll reinstall and hope for the best. I'd rather not do that, because if it still doesn't work, where am I?
My thanx to those who have answered so far, and any other suggestions would be appreciated. Just please remember that I am not all that familiar--I'm not much familiar at all--with Linux/Unix.
This Linux machine, BTW, is going thru the same router.
You seem to be making this a damn site harder than it ought to be. Start YaST, console or graphical, go to Network Devices -> Network Card. Do you have anything listed under the Network Cards to Configure, or Already Configured Devices sections? If it's in the Network Cards to Configure section then it is not yet configured, and your network will not work. If it's in the Already Configured Devices section then it is mis-configured, and your network will not work. If it's in neither section then the kernel does not support this NIC (doubtful, as you say it has worked in previous releases,) and your network will never work. -- Steve Boddy