Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 01:56 PM 10/22/2005 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
/snip/
YaST-->Network Devices-->select your card in the lower area and then click on the change button. Highlight your card (you may only have one) and then click on the edit button. Under "Setup Method" select DHCP Click on Routing-->fill in the IP address of your router as the Default Gateway. Click on the Next button and then the Finish Button.
Your networking should now work, if not let us know so that we can help you further. You may have to make some changes for your DNS servers and your Hostname/Domain Name.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
What I have done so far:
I found out how to get into yast graphical mode, from a console. I don't know how to do it from the desktop. At any rate, I followed your instructions as nearly as possible.
Yast found the network card by itself. I didn't have to look in the lower area. (I looked anyway, and my "card" isn't there.) It automatically selected DHCP and it found the ip address of the router by itself for the default gateway. The following available command is not "next" but "OK". There does not seem to be a "finish" command. I forget what came next, but somehow I got back to the yast main window and closed it.
At this point I tried to ping the router itself (should work, but did not) and tried to ping an outside source which I can ping from Windows or the other Linux machine.
Somewhere it said that the network starts at boot, so I will reboot into Suse and see if the network starts, and I'll report back either way.
Someone asked about the results of ifconfig and lsmod. Unfortunately, I do not have any way of forwarding those, since I can't save them to NTFS, and I can't send them direct from Suse--no network! Can I somehow save them to a .txt file in XP, from which I could copy and paste to this mailer?
Whoever it was also asked for the type of Ethernet hardware--its Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet, part of the MOBO, but Yast seems to be able to find it OK.
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.) 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, 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. --doug, wa2say