I am running SuSe 9.1 on an old celeron box. I can ping the router and the two windows boxes on my lil home net (and they can ping me). I just can't get to the internet through the DSL modem. The windows boxes can get out just fine.

I am a newbie and any help would be appreciated.

Mark

What kind of router do you have? Please post the output of '/sbin/route' and '/sbin/ifconfig' (both run as root) so we can see your current network settings. Also, what errors do you get when you try to ping google.com? If it complains about being able to resolve the domain, you may need to adjust /etc/resolv.conf.

Here are the results. Thanks in advance for your help.

linux:~ # /sbin/route
Kernal IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Ifac
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 etho
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 etho
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
linux:~ #

linux:~ # /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:E9:EF:35:3D
inet addr:192.168.1.47 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe801::215:e9ff:ff:353d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frames:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 cariier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4328 (4.2 Kb) TX bytes: 0 (0.0 Kb)
Interupt:11 Base address:0xe800

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
RX packets:1685 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frames:0
TX packets:1685 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:224589 (219.3 Kb) TX bytes: 224589 (219.30 Kb)

Try 'route add default gw 192.168.1.1'.

This is a problem I've often encountered in the past. DHCP sets up the IP address and netmask, but not the routing or DNS. On some systems it works, on others it doesn't. I never figured out why...

The quick-and-dirty fix is to open Networking in YAST, and enter default route and DNS directly into the network settings. As most commercial routers support DNS, both of these entries will be your router IP address.

Thank you Matir & tskers! Your solutions worked!

Thank's again
Mark

No problem. Hope you'll continue to find the site useful.