Can you ping the router? If not check router arp entry for your laptop and vica versa. In such situation I'd also check if your IP at home belongs to the same subnet etc etc. It happened to me few times my laptop which I also use at work kept my work IP as after suspend eth0 didn't get restarted. Martin --- Steve wrote:

This has me stumped. I use my laptop at home and at work. At work, I have no real problems (except sometimes needing to re-install my pcmcia card), but at home I sometimes have real problems seeing anything on the network (either internet or my lan) past the router. I can get to the router's configuration page with no problems, but nothing beyond that. And this doesn't happen all the time, probably less than 10% of the time. It doesn't seem to be the hardware per se because I also have Mandrake on here in a different partition and it doesn't give me any problems. Normally, after booting up at work and coming home, things are fine again. Any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks, Steve

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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:45:14 -0700
Steve  wrote:

> This has me stumped. I use my laptop at home and at work. At work, I
> have no real problems (except sometimes needing to re-install my
> pcmcia card), but at home I sometimes have real problems seeing
> anything on the network (either internet or my lan) past the router. I
> can get to the router's configuration page with no problems, but
> nothing beyond that. And this doesn't happen all the time, probably
> less than 10% of the time. It doesn't seem to be the hardware per se
> because I also have Mandrake on here in a different partition and it
> doesn't give me any problems. Normally, after booting up at work and
> coming home, things are fine again. Any ideas why this is happening?
My SuSE 8.1 laptop works flawlessly on 4 different networks. On your
home network, since you can get to the router, the PCMCIA card is
working. The first thing to do is to check your IP address using
ifconfig. (I assume that you are using a dynamic IP address). 
Next, check your routing table (eg. netstat -nr). Make sure that you
have at least 2 entries:
1. Your local subnet. 
2. Your default route showing the router as the gateway. 

Make sure that your local subnet is consistent with your net mask. If
your local subnet is 192.168.0.x and your router is 192.168.1.1 you can
see the router, but not your local subnet if your mask is set to class
c. (eg. 255.255.255.0).

You can manually add elements to the routing table by using the route
command. 

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