On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 23:08 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I just installed Suse 10.0 from the CD's--I can't boot from DVD, for some reason--and I can not reach the internet. 9.2 worked. 8.2 worked. 10.0--zip. Maybe it's due to the firewall that is installed automatically? I have a Linksys router with a firewall, I don't know why I need one from Linux. This is the same machine, and as you see, the Windows connection to the net works fine. I'm not a computer maven, so I would appreciate a solution in words of one syllable.
First step is to open a shell and ping your router, the (4d address) 192.168.?.? address is in the manual. If that happens then you need to know the 4d address of an external site (try 65.75.184.79) if you can ping the router and not the external site then you have a gateway issue, if you can't ping the router then you have a network card issue. If both ping, then you have a DNS lookup issue.