Hi

I don't know if anyone can help me, I am really quite experienced in the world of computers and networking, but blow me I have exhausted all options and pretty much everything I know, and Suse 10.0 still cannot connect to the Internet. 30 mins ago, I actually got it connected, I restarted to update the kernel and would you believe it does not work again.

I go to Yast2 and enter in the internal IP address which I want, which is 192.168.2.6 and the hostname and the subnet and the DNS of my router. In the DSL settings it claims to have found my DSL modem, it even automatically detects the DNS of that - but why won't the blasted thing work? I am seriously beating my head against the table because on my last computer I got it working fine. I've even bought a new network card because I thought my ethernet port was dodgy.

Can someone give me an idiots guide from the beginning in setting it up, I don't mind editing configuration files if I have to, I am not giving up!!

Thanks

Goboy

stupid question, i know, but you have you set your gateway up? i'm assuming your DSL modem is external conected via cat5 here, so when you set your ip address and subnet, you also set your gateway to the IP of your DSL modem, right? or is your modem internal?

SUSE has one strange characteristic where one DNS address is overwritten by the gateway address when used with some routers. With this situation, the computer will run fine until it is rebooted. If that is your situation, I wrote a brief guide at another forum showing how to work around that problem. Look here --> link.

no my modem is not internal, it is an external DSL modem (Speedtouch 510) also a router, and my wireless router (Belkin Mimo Pre-N) is connected to that. all my pc's are patched to my wireless router, with the intention of going solely wireless later on.

What do you get when you run iwconfig ?