Hi folks, well have given up on Mandy's 9.1, 9.2 & 10 (cos they wouldnt recognise my bog-standard USB Mouse, Fedora Core was the ropiest thing I have ever seen so now I'm TRYING to try out SUSE, and here is the prob

Have downloaded and burnt the SUSE boot ISO to a CD

Restart the system, which loads all the components ok

Install my Realtek Ethernet card from the list provided

Don't select DHCP as I have a router so enter

192.168.7.2 as my IP
Leave the mask as 255.255.255.0
192.168.7.1 as my gateway (router)

And then attempt to connect to the ftp server which in my case is 212.219.247.12 <<< this is mirror.ac.uk

And thats it - it sites there for about 2 minutes and then says "cannot connect to ftp server" and that ftp server is definitely up - I dont think its ever down to be honest

So that's that, I can't install SUSE - anyone got any suggestions - I keep coming back to Linux about once every six months but it always a case of either

- the installation hangs
- my basic hardware isnt recognised even if it does install

and I was hoping SUSE would be different but I cant even get off the starting blocks....

Help please if you can

Output of
ifconfig
and
route
please ...

But I'm a and don't understand how to get these outputs - I'm right at the start of the install process after all.....

at the command line as root type ifconfig -a . This will show you the config of your NIC (Network interface Card)

you should get something similar to this
linux:~ # ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:4C:20:3C
inet addr:212.4.74.111 Bcast:212.4.74.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:44ff:fe4c:203c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5019 errors:113 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:225
collisions:3 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2619983 (2.4 Mb) TX bytes:638621 (623.6 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x9400

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:F4:C9:6E:80
inet addr:198.162.1.0 Bcast:198.162.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::200:f4ff:fec9:6e80/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:194 errors:66 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:66
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:366793 (358.1 Kb) TX bytes:33580 (32.7 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x9000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:389 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:389 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:33729 (32.9 Kb) TX bytes:33729 (32.9 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

linux:~ #

Stick it here on the post for us all to have a look at. Might be able to see a prob.

Perhaps try another server.
I had to try a few to get my FTP 9.0 installed, and some more to get a good update source.
Select 3 or 4 that are anywhere near you and maybe a few that aren't.