Hi,

I recently got DSL and it woks well with my WIn98 dual boot machine but not the Suse9.1. partition.

If I boot win98, it is OK.

Sesu9.1 does not connect either through the Network card I have ( realtek RT8139 ) or the USB connection.

It there any setup needed ? IP..etc

I have enabled DHCP and the network card is working OK ( when I connect another laptop through the cross-over cable, it works ).

Any hints please?

thanks.
redrobin

network settings in your Win98 and Suse basically will be identical.
afterall, its TCP/IP that lies underneath.

So, if you use static/dhcp in win 98 then use same in suse. do u have dhclient rpm installed?

what is you ifconfig output?

It is easiest method is to use the ethernet port. You will need to configure a dsL connection. I do not run SuSE and so I am unfamilar with yast network cofiguration wizard.

Sort of. DSL uses a different protocol pppoe or pppoa. I'm assuming redrobin77 is not using a router. Once connected to DSL you will see a ppp0 interface

Have you set up your network card in Yast? (This is almost defintely done automatic)

Are you using a DSL modem or a DSL modem/gateway/router?
(Was it supplied by your ISP?)


If you have a modem there's a fair chance it may not work
out the box in Linux. (this is the likely cause)

If so I'd go out and buy a decent ADSL/Gateway (Linksys e.g)
They are quite cheap. They are better than a modem anyway giving you added firewall
protection and multiple connection ports.



do:

/sbin/ifconfig

to see if you have any interfaces setup.
(post what you see)

Look in /etc/sysadmin/network

for ifcfg-eth0 or similar names.

Hi all,

thanks for the replies.

I have setup the network card in yast.

I am using the DSL modem/router supplied by the provider. ( FRITZ BOX Fon)

Here is the output I saw:

THere was no /etc/sysadmin/network directory, but there was /etc/sysconfig/network.

In there I saw:
ifcfg-dsl0
ifcfg-eth-id-00:02:44:....
ifcfg-lo
...
...

ifconfig produced:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet...
inet6 addr:fe08::202:44ff:fe08:....
......

lo Link encap: Local Loopback
inetadr:127.0.0.1 ..
......

anything else..?

thanks,
redrobin

hmm seems like you dont have an IP address. Post your /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 file.

One other thing that i considered to be a problem before i read the last post was to check your route table to see if you have an active route to the modem.

A properly configured route will have 0.0.0.0 (as the default network to send any unanswered requests) and 192.168.X.X as your gateway.

I am using DHCP, so do I need a static IP addr?

anyway here is the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0:

BOOTPROTO: 'dhcp'
MTU=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='onboot'
UNIQUE='WL76......'
_nm_name='bus-pci-0000:00:09.0'

route -n produces something like:

Destination Gateway GenMask ........... ...... ...... Iface
192.168.178.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 ............................eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 ..............................lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.178.1 0.0.0.0. ...................................eth0

thanks,
redroin

Just a note, have you tried running the command adsl-setup?
On my system (Mandrake) it's in /usr/sbin, in case its' not part of your PATH.

There is no adsl-setup that I can find in suse...;(

I checked /usr/sbin as well.

what happens when you try "adsl-start" ?

I think you have to be root for these.

adsl-start also does not exist.....



But, now I am trying to install Redhat9.0 to see if that works better...

looks like this is your dsl interface:
ifcfg-dsl0
post it for us.

have you got a
ifcfg-eth0?

post it for us.
Though it looks as though it won't connect from the ifstatus.


also have you tried:

/sbin/ifup dsl0?

It's probably the modem.
Does it connect via ethernet or USB or how?

you'll probably find it's a hardware problem.

# cat ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
TYPE=Ethernet


# cat ifcfg-ppp0
USERCTL=yes
BOOTPROTO=dialup
NAME=DSLppp0
DEVICE=ppp0
TYPE=xDSL
ONBOOT=no
PIDFILE=/var/run/pppoe-adsl.pid
FIREWALL=STANDALONE
PING=.
PPPOE_TIMEOUT=80
LCP_FAILURE=3
LCP_INTERVAL=20
CLAMPMSS=1412
CONNECT_POLL=6
CONNECT_TIMEOUT=60
DEFROUTE=yes
SYNCHRONOUS=no
ETH=eth0
PROVIDER=....
USER=......
PEERDNS=yes

I cannot find the ifcfg-dsl0 any more after installing redhat!

thanks.
redrobin