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I am new to Linux and just setup suse 10.1 and I cant get firefox to connect to the internet. Although my evolution e-mail reader connects to the e-mail server and downloads from the web. It recognizes the lan connection and see's the other computers on the network. I have a d-link dir 655 wireless router connected via lan cable using satellite dsl through Hughesnet satellite service. when I check network settings I can ping an address and it works. Every indication says it should work!
The only thing that comes to mind is your DNS settings. Have a look at /etc/resolv.conf and see if there are correct DNS addresses listed. Most routers will pass DNS addresses back to the host machines.
Or to test if DNS is working at all, try a ping www.google.com and see if that figures out the IP address. If it doesn't work, the issue is DNS.
The only thing that comes to mind is your DNS settings. Have a look at /etc/resolv.conf and see if there are correct DNS addresses listed. Most routers will pass DNS addresses back to the host machines.
Or to test if DNS is working at all, try a ping www.google.com and see if that figures out the IP address. If it doesn't work, the issue is DNS.
Thanks for the reply They are correct and I can ping Google.COM but still no connection.
Billy
Last edited by billyhood46; 03-31-2008 at 03:53 PM.
I have checked the DNS settings and they were correct and I can ping google.com when I first login but after that I can only ping an network computer address. I am stumped as to what the cause could be. When I installed the software it could'nt find a connection so after it installed I went in and set the DNS settings myself now the machine is aware of the lan. But the only thing I can think of is that it is an onboard Lan and Linux does'nt like onboard lan's.
Billy
Last edited by billyhood46; 03-31-2008 at 03:54 PM.
Might be easier to run this script and check for configuration error messages. Otherwise just post the output which will give us a lot of network information to help you.
and as for the command 'lspci -v' I don't know how to run it?
That's why I wrote the script to make the whole data collection and analysis easier for you and to make life easier for us who want to help ... there is much more info about your network config available which you can provide to us for problem determination ...
To recap:
You can ping www.google.com only for a short time and then no more.
questions:
1) can you ping the ip address 64.233.183.147 ?
2) what information do you get after typing
route -n
3) is the content in /etc/resolv.conf changed in the meantime ?
To recap:
You can ping www.google.com only for a short time and then no more.
questions:
1) can you ping the ip address 64.233.183.147 ?
2) what information do you get after typing
route -n
3) is the content in /etc/resolv.conf changed in the meantime ?
yes I can ping this address sent 5 packets and received 5
etc/resolv.conf = nameserver 192.168.10.1
Last edited by billyhood46; 04-01-2008 at 04:06 PM.
I ran the script now how do I get the Information that it collected?
You should get messages which tell you what to do.
Post the contents of the file collectNWData.out either on phpfi.com and then post the link in this forum (which will save diskspace on linuxquestions.org ;-) ) or just post the contents of this file with copy/paste in this thread (Pls use code tags to make your posting more readable).
I've seen these [post the output of this command - reply ]+ postings a lot of time. That's why I wrote this script which collects a lot of network configuration information. You also will get an answer for your question because 'ifconfig' is one of the commands executed and which output will be collected.
It's a huge output .... but in general - at least that's my experience - you don't have these [post the output of this command - reply ]+ ping pong postings ;-) and will be able to provide help in a much more effective way
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