Hello, I have been having problems connecting to the internet with the static IP option. I configure all my network settings through YaST under "Network Card Settings". Whenever I use the static IP option my internet connection fails, but I can ping my router on 192.168.1.1 and it responds. I can also ping all my computers on the local network, but when I ping yahoo.com or google.com it says "ping: unknown host yahoo.com". So I am forced to use the DHCP settings to get the internet working again. I do not wish to use this, because I want to take advantage of the various different static IPs I have. However, the static IP option worked under windows, but has failed to work with openSUSE 10.3. Whenever I setup static IP on my FreeBSD box it worked fine, so I know it's not any problems related to my linksys router.
I have even tried entering in the IPs manually with:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.162 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 but I still get the same result. I have also tried editing /etc/resolv.conf and entering in the nameservers, but no luck. I even rebooted the computer after entering in the ifconfig for static IP.

I would appreciate it if someone could help me resolve this issue.
Thanks,

Darvish

looks like i needed to add a gateway, with:
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
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well not exactly, it still wont work in YaST under static ip settings, but if you put it on DHCP, you can then manually change IPs with ifconfig and then you have to add the default gw again with route, so I'm still trying to figure this out. I'm pretty confused right now, so if anyone has any suggestion on what to do I'd appreciate it.

Check your /etc/resolv.conf. It should have a nameserver line with a valid nameserver address.

Yes, I did add the nameservers under /etc/resolv.conf but I'm still having problems pinging the outside network. I appreciate the help, thanks.

Well it seems to be working for some reason now that I added the nameservers again to /etc/resolv.conf, YaST must of modified /etc/resolv.conf so I had to add the NS to /etc/resolv.conf again,
thanks for the help guys.

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BTW, OP, you don't provide a model ID for your Linksys, is it one of those that can assign fixed IP's based on MAC addresses? In many cases that is preferable to true static IP's on a LAN.