Suse 10.1 not connecting, but fine in Windows

williesbest2 · 09-02-2006, 11:45 PM

I have been trying to get online with Suse for quite some time. It's refusing to connect to the internet. I tried setting up static ip addressing and that didn't work either. Everything is configured correctly. I have a nVida mcp51 ethernet controller. Any ideas what's wrong?

w3bd3vil · 09-03-2006, 01:28 AM

how do you connect, adsl, pppoe, lan, wireless?

google01103 · 09-03-2006, 11:49 AM

There a 'bug' somewhere and what you'll need to do is turn off the computer and unplug the power cord then when repowered up the ethernet will work on Linux. Can't remember the technicals (may wish to visit Nvidia Linux forum) but there's something that doesn't get cleared after you've run Windows in the card and rebooting or powering off won't clear the problem only total absense of electricity will.

williesbest2 · 09-03-2006, 12:42 PM

I connect with LAN. I'll give that a shot.

williesbest2 · 09-03-2006, 02:39 PM

Ok that seemed to work. Thanks for the help.

google01103 · 09-03-2006, 02:44 PM

You may want to install an ethernet card (they're cheap) just to make things a bit easier.

williesbest2 · 09-03-2006, 03:08 PM

I tried installing two ethernet cards. One of them doesn't fit in my case lol and the other isn't detected by Suse

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google01103 · 09-03-2006, 04:09 PM

If you start up Yast and go to Network Devices -> Network Card and the 2nd screen which has an 'add' option you'll see the 'select from list' button which will list what's definetly usable, there's also also the Suse hw certified database http://cdb.suse.de/?LANG=en_UK. I'd think older 3com's would be cheap and usable as that's what I'm doing.