I just did an install using suse 9.1 prof. on a dell c400 laptop. Everything went very smooth,- except I can't get online. PIng commands don't work, and my configuration seems all screwed up. The solution is probably obvious, but I don't know what to do.
When using the live cd, everything works fine. Is it possible to copy some configuration files from the live cd, and using them in the normal OS? I am hooked up with a cable modem via a normal hub and cat5. I all my other machines on that network work just fine.
Any advise highly appreciated!

linux:~ # route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
linux:~ # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:5B:02:60:4C
inet6 addr: fe80::206:5bff:fe02:604c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:21
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5700 (5.5 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80

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:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5316 (5.1 Kb) TX bytes:5316 (5.1 Kb)

Yes, you can.
But copy them once the card is set up.

Check if you have ipv4 and/or ipv6 equally set in all your machines.
Check also if you haven't a firewall denying access to some IPs.

If you are doing NAT check also if it is properly enabled.

I don't know if your network has other linux machines, but in order to ease the use of NAT and firewalls you should use Firestarter
which is a fast and easy way to get NAT working and controlling your FW's setting.

Ethereal would also be a good idea, it's multi-platform and you can see what happens on your network.

Ah, check also if the proper kernel modules are loaded. The best way is comparing the output of lsmod on both cases and doing a diff.

On the LiveCD
On the running installed distro
The > sign tells you what is in lsmod02 and not in lsmod01
and < tells you the opposite.

Pah! Thank you for all this advice, but to be honest with you, I don't know what to do with this, this is the first time I am setting up a network on Linux. I tried searching for ipv4-6, but I have no idea where to find it, neither can I find etho1 or 2, (somewhere on my HD??, where?)
searching returns no results...How do I perform a NAT check?
I checked the firewall settings, and that seems fine. I could install a new one no problem, if it helps, but something seems to be messed up with eth0 and eth1. I posted the boot log of that section, as well as the resolv.conf file. Maybe that will help to shed some light on this issue.
thank you!


Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 1 of 3) done
<notice>exit status of (random pcmcia isdn SuSEfirewall2_init) is (0 0 0 0)
<notice>start services (network)
Setting up network interfaces:
lo
lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
done eth0 device: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:06:5b:02:60:4c
eth0 (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding.
waiting
eth1 device: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
eth1 No configuration found for eth1
unused<notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 3710
Waiting for mandatory devices: eth-id-00:06:5b:02:60:4c
14 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 3710
12 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 3710
11 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 3710
10 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 3710
8 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 3710
7 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 3710
6 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 3710
5 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 3710
3 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 3710
2 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 3710
1 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 3710

eth0 interface could not be set up
failed modem0
modem0 Startmode is 'manual'
skippedSetting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.failed
<notice>exit status of (network) is (7)
<notice>start services (syslog)
\

etc/resolv.conf.
nameserver 204.127.198.19
nameserver 63.240.76.19
search hsd1.ca.comcast.net

I am having the same problem. I have SuSE 9.2 installed on a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop and it can't detect any network configuration. I'm totally new to SuSE and during installation I tried to download updates off the net but it wouldn't work. I played around with the network configuration settings to no avail and finally just skipped it. I can boot SuSE just fine now, but there's no connection no matter what I do (btw I have both internal wireless, an ethernet, and a modem connection). When I open YaST and go to Network card configuration it says the following:

Network cards to configure:
- Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
- Other (not detected)

Already configured devices:
- Ethernet Network Card
Configured with DHCP.
- Dell BCM4401-b0 100Base-TX
Configured with DHCP.



The ethernet connection is what I'm trying to get to work right now. I don't need wireless connectivity at the moment. I'll continue playing with things and see how far I get, but if anyone has any clues as to what needs to be done please share your knowledge.

This is where the problem resides; Your eth0 device is not configured.

BTW; all devices in Unix-alikes are referenced like normal files. On linux they 'live' under the /dev hierarchy, so eth0's path is /dev/eth0,
you can try to read from it with cat as an experiment:

What you have to do is simply running Yast and configuring your netword card in order to assign an IP to it.

I don't know if your network is so big that you really need DHCP, setting up a static network requires less work as setting up a DHCP network (a little less),
so in order to avoid problems keep things simple: Open Yast and configure your network using static IP's. Inside YAST > System > sysconfig settings (or the like) you can alter a lot of system parameters, enabling up IPV6 among others.

Another thing you should try is disabling the firewall temporarily to test it the troubles comes from there.

Other cause which could hinder the configuration of your Ethernet device would be the absence of PCMCIA kernel modules or device drivers:

This should list your card's modules, I don't know which modules should be there for 3com cards, but you can see this in YAST in your network configuration section.

Hi,

a little trick is to use "pci_irq_isa=7" when booting to make the cardmgr making stop...

The good thing is - now it boots. The bad thing is, you still do not have PCMCIA support.

In my case (IBM Thinkpad) the best working LIVE CD is 7.2 - all the other make trouble with that - and only this workes great!!!!

You find it in the descontinued folder on the suse-download-page when you look for that.....

GOOD LUCK!

Thank you all for your help!
I messed around some more, did every possible configuration, but it's still not working.
I have less than 5 machines on my network.
I have disabled the firewall, tried setting up a static ip, and dhcp. I can ping the router, but not goggle IP!

dmesg
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
eth1: no IPv6 routers present

How do I enable IPV6? I could not find that. Even though I can find it's location and folder..


lsmod | grep 3com -brings back nothing
modprobe 3c59x -brings back nothing

when running ifconfig, it shows RX and TX packet errors

Another thing I noticed is that when I open yast it shows the network card as configured, but when I open the hardware tool(suseplugger), it shows 2 network controllers, both show as "available" and not configured?!

any help to ease the frustration highly appreciated! Thanks!

ok, well I don't know what i did now, but it seems to be working. I set eth1 to a static IP, taking the info from another machine, even though I am on broadband-cable-hub-setup. At least that worked! YES!
But- when running the ifconfig command I still get RX and TX packet errors. Do I need to fix that, if so how? Thank you!

does anyone know how to change the static IP broadcast? i have suse 9.1 free. my IP is 192.168.1.102 and the thing broadcasts as 192.168.1.255 and it doesn't work?