Hi, I'm using Suse 10 and I can't seem to get my laptop to connect to the Internet. My ethernet card is detected and is set to detect the DHCP settings automatically. I'm not sure what else could be wrong; the connection is fine when I boot in Windows. My ethernet card is Realtek RTL-8169.

What happens when you run the ifconfig command?

ath0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ED:0D:02:5C
inet6 addr: fe80::220:edff:fe0d:25c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:5684 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:5684
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:200
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:201 Memory:f94a0000-f94b0000

eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:F5:0DE:02
inet6 addr: fe80::290:f5ff:fe0d:de02/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 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:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:225 Base address:0x6800

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:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5166 (5.0 Kb) TX bytes:5166 (5.0 Kb)

I don't know if this is any use, but I saw to try it on some other posts and this is what I got:

dhcpcd -d -t 10 eth0
dhcpcd: MAC address = 00:90:f5:0d:de:02


/sbin/route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo


ps aux | grep dhcp
root 5120 0.0 0.0 1392 376 ? S 01:18 0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd -C -H -D -K -N -t 999999 -h linux -c /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/dhcpcd-hook ath0
root 5502 0.0 0.0 1392 380 ? S 01:18 0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd -C -R -G -N -Y -t 999999 -h linux -c /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/dhcpcd-hook eth0
root 7364 0.0 0.0 2736 692 pts/1 S+ 01:18 0:00 grep dhcp

I'm not sure that the driver/ module is sucessfully loaded. How do I check this?

Can anyone help?

bump......

I'm pretty sure the modules are loading properly. You see three interfaces here, ath0, eth0, and lo. The ath0 interface is probably a wireless network card, and the lo is a loopback interface (a virtual interface the computer uses to talk to itself).

You are running a DHCP client on both interfaces, but it is strange that you have not sent or received any packets on eth0.

- I know you say it works on Windows, but are you sure the cable is connected properly?

- You might want to disable your wireless card, and see if that helps.

- If all else fails, you should write down your network settings in Windows, and set them manually in Linux. Then you can see if the card works at all!