I have installed OpenSuse 10 on an new HP Pavilion laptop.
There are a few problems.
First is that i can't connect to the internet.
I have a DSL connection with a static IP.
I have a home network behind a NAT, so each machine on the network has its own ip, like 192.168.0.*

Yast2 shows that the network card is:
Hewlett-Packard Company RTL-8139/8319C/8139C+

What do I need to do?

When you say "behind a NAT", do you mean a Cable/DSL router? If so, it probably provides a DHCP server on the LAN side, and PPoE is taken care of by the router on the WAN side. So you simply need to choose DHCP, and have the IP, netmask, nameserver address assigned to you by the router.

Start YaST2 from the menu, and setup the network interface. You might want to go to the Advanced section, and to enter your hostname in the DHCP advanced options.
That should be all you need to do.

I have the same network card with a DSL wireless modem. I had to configure the DSL modem, the network card and the wireless card. Now it works fine. I beleive it's your DSL configuration not your network card that's the problem.

Yes, its a DSL router.

I've done Yast -> Network Services -> DNS and Host Name and entered name server and domain search info.
This is not enough, though, still no connection

when i do a 'ifconfig' i should see something like this line:
inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
but i don't

Also, did:
Routing Configuration: Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1 (which is the setting on my other machine)
Host Configuration: 192.168.0.101 mylaptopname.myisp.com mylaptopname

how about "ping google.com" ?
how about "ping 64.233.167.99" ?

Do you get reponses from both?

If you only get a response from the 2nd one, then its a DNS issue.

neither works:

#ping www.google.com
ping: unknown host www.google.com
#ping 64.233.167.99
connect: Network is unreachable

What does this mean?

try
#ifconfig eth0 up
#ping 192.168.0.1
control+c to stop
are the packets lost?
also try with suse firewall off if you are using it

forget to mention that i had turned the firewall off already. my bad.

#ifconfig eth0 up
#ping 192.168.0.1
connect: Network is unreachable

(no need for ctrl-c to stop)

I don't know how to answer whether packets are lost or not

you know? this happened to mee too... in my laptop I have a wireless card and a regular Netwok card so what I did was Unstall the Wireless card and that was it ! now everything works just fine.

on Yast go to Network devices - Network Card
click on ur Wireless card and Dele it.

Hmm.
I'd like to request you to paste the output of two commands:

ifconfig
iwconfig

Also, I noticed these guys wherent giving you the ifplugd command for turning on network cards.

You're supposed to type "ifup <device>"

So perhaps for you it is "ifup eth0".

Then check ifconfig for an IP address. I'd still like the output of the two commands above.
Thanks!

On SuSE, you can use "sudo /sbin/rcnetwork stop <interface>"
"sudo /usr/rcnetwork start <interface>" and "sudo /usr/rcnetwork restart <interface>" to stop/start/restart individual interfaces. I think that if part of the network configuration is in /etc/sysconfig/network/interfaces or another general configuration script, they may be sourced doing it this way.

I would suggest first seeing if you can reach the router before dealing with the modem. Most Cable/DSL modems have web based configuration. If you can reach the router, you can look at the status page for the router. You should be able to tell if the DHCP server on the router is enabled. The WAN interface status will show you if the router itself has an IP address.

Are you setting up your hosts to use static addressing instead of DHCP. If you use DHCP, you don't need to enter the nameserver addresses, or IP address or even the gateway address. DHCP does that for you. If you want to use static addresses, then you can obtain the nameserver (DNS) addresses from the Routers static page.

I would suggest that you supply information on what model of NAT router you are using. Someone may be using the same model with DSL. Which DSL modem you have, may effect how you need to configure router on the WAN side.

Also, entering "sudo /sbin/rcnetwork status" might supply interesting details.

Try this link
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?
The author of "Suse 10.0 Unleashed" is there.