On Saturday, 30 October 2004 06.08, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Today I came back to find that I had no network connection -- all addresses were unreachable. The little light next to the ethernet jack was on, and the lights on the hub to which the machine directly connects were also on. I tried (in Yast) uninstalling and reinstalling the network interface card; that had no effect. <snip> Any suggestions on how to go about diagnosing the failure?
first establish if you have an IP address (look at the output of ifconfig) and if you get a bunch of errors (also shown in the output of ifconfig) Then look at your routing table (route -n) and compare with the machines that work If the above checks out, try pinging an internal IP address and an external (try 195.135.220.3 for example, that's www.suse.de) If the above checks out, look at your name servers in /etc/resolv.conf and compare with the machines that work