Newbie's internet is broke

cybersaga · 09-15-2004, 08:51 AM

I just installed Suse 9.1 on my laptop last night. All is fine and dandy except the internet doesn't work. I've read around on the internet that there might be some driver trouble with the Linksys 10/100 PCMPC100 I'm using which usually mention a axnet_cs.o driver but I haven't one clue how to install that, or about anything I'm doing for that matter. My experience with linux began when I installed it last night.
But I see during boot up and shut down that Linux recognizes the network adapter by name, I just have no internet. Is there anything else I need to setup?
Help would be very much appreciated.

specs:
HP Omnibook 2100
PII 266MHz
96MB RAM
Linksys 10/100 PCMPC100 PCMCIA Network adapter
going to D-Link DI-604 router

czarherr · 09-15-2004, 11:57 AM

I'm not a Suse user, so bear with a slight lack of detail. There should be some GUI tool that allows you to configure your NICs. What happens when you configure them to listen for DHCP (or static, depending on how you have set up your network)? Also, please run the command lsmod as root and post the results here, this doesn't sound too bad, we should be able to get it running in no time.

cybersaga · 09-15-2004, 02:19 PM

well, I'm not exactly sure how to configure my card to listen for DHCP (which is how the router's set up)... I was probing around the configuration (YaST) and the only option I found that even mentioned DHCP was greyed out....
but I did find something else, in the Hardware info, the network card is listed, but under it, it says the driver is not active, though it does have the right driver... so I don't know what's going on there...

When I go into Network Card Configuration it says it detects nothing, but it will allow me to configure it manually (Device Type, Configuration Name, Hardware Configuration Name, Module Name, Options, and whether it's PCMCIA or USB).

Another thing, when it's shutting down and all the details of the shut down are flying by, at one point it comes to "shutting down PCMCIA" and it says "No configuration found for eth0" with other stuff of course... but other than that, all network stuff starts up and shuts down fine...

now, lsmod, my laptop doesn't have a disk drive unfortunately, and since the network doesn't work there's no way of getting the output to this computer except by typing it, so uh, yeah..... I'll give you the entries that look relevant though (I put it in as code just so it would line up):

Code:

Module                Size              Used by
pcnet_cs              18612             1
8390                  9856              1 pcnet_cs
ds                    17284             1 pcnet_cs,serial_cs
pcmcia_core           61636             4 pcnet_cs,serial_cs,ds,yenta_socket

J.W. · 09-15-2004, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cybersaga
my laptop doesn't have a disk drive unfortunately

Hold on a minute -- your machine does not have a floppy drive, or does not have a hard drive? The first case is pretty typical, but how did you install Suse without a hard drive?

Assuming you meant floppy, one thing I'd suggest is to post the results of running this command (as root)

Code:

ifconfig

which will show your current settings. Further steps can be based on what you see with that. -- J.W.

cybersaga · 09-15-2004, 07:46 PM

yeah I meant floppy

ifconfig yielded:

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:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7056 (6.8 Kb) TX bytes:7056 (6.8Kb)

cybersaga · 09-15-2004, 08:00 PM

ok, I managed to get it an ip address, 192.168.0.101, as it should be, from the router... but internet still doesn't work...

cybersaga · 09-15-2004, 08:10 PM

ok, I got it to work... configured "other" in network card setup as PCMCIA and everything else got filled in with few exceptions... all is good! thanks though!

J.W. · 09-16-2004, 12:32 AM

Right on cybersaga, congrats on solving the problem -- J.W.