Hello Folks,

I've just installed Suse 9.3 without a glitch, until I ran into problems with the network.

The network card is recognized, it gets its ip from my 3com officeconnect ADSL router/modem but I can't get to the internet. Booting with XP will get me to it.

If I run IFCONFIG I get my ip on eth0, RX packets OK, and errors on TX packets.

If I ping my router I get host unreachable.

If I try to open any website by their ip, I get connection refused on Mozilla.

With route -n I get:

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 UG 0 0 0 eth0

I've already tried with DHCP, and then I've tried static IP.

I've read quite a few posts, and I've disabled ipv6 and nscd

Firewall on XP, router and Suse are disabled

My private network runs on 192.168.1.xxx
My gateway is the router 192.168.1.1
My DNS are 194.179.1.100 194.179.1.101 (these are already my NameServers)

Question 1: In Yast -> Network Services -> DNS and Host name ; what do I enter in Domain search? I have the DNS IPs but no name

Question 2: What's this 169.254.0.0 showing up on route -n?
My network set-up clearly shows it's on 192.168.1.251 (out of the router's DHCP range)

Any help, tips, suggestions are most welcome,

Peter

Answer 1:
Put nothing in search name, and use any host name that you like ;-)


In general:
How is configured your router? Is it configured to use DHCP?

Try to use in linux DHCP.
Ev. you can install "pump" and try to
. This command use DHCP to set relevant internet settings.

With ifconfig I get the following:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:6A:A4:4C:2D
inet addr:192.168.1.251 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:63 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:21435 (20.9 Kb) TX bytes: 0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:217 Base address:0xd400

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:207 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:207 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:14935 (14.5 Kb) TX bytes: 14935 (14.5 Kb)

The card is not faulty as I use the same computer in windows, all firewalls are off, router has DHCP.

I get the feeling that either the NIC driver is not working, or I should configure it manually with the interrupt and base address. Can I use the values I have in windows?

The motherboard is ASRock K8upgrade-1689 with onboard LAN.

Maybe I should install a new ethernet card, any brand that works?

I've also tried deleting and reinstalling the network device, no changes.

I get home only on some weekends, by this rate I'll have internet by January...

Regards,

I'm writing this from Suse!

Slid in a new 3com network card, bought a new ethernet cable. Didn't work.

I almost gave up, faced returning to windows. Tried with old ethernet crossed cable, voila!

Now I'll move on to Samba forums...