I'm totally new to Linux, used it for the first time yesterday. I installed SUSE 9.1 seemingly without a hitch, and everything worked great for about 20 minutes. Then I lose my internet browsing, without having changed anything. There one minute, gone the next. I was using Konquerer, and now all I get is the message "Error occured while loading <site name>" and "Unknown host <site name>".

On restarting, I get a couple of "Failed" messages as follows:

Waiting for mandatory services eth-id-<MAC address> no interface found,
Setting up service network...... failed"

I also get the message: "Failed services in run level 5.... network"

It looks like the YaST network card dialogue box recognizes my ethernet card, and says "Digital DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3], configured with DHCP". My internet connection is with a cable modem, through Comcast, not going through a router. My Windows 98 partition can still connect to the net, so I know everything is in working order. It seems something must be misconfigured, but I don't know what.

Any and all help is much appreciated!

You could use
dmesg
to dislay what went wrong ans post it on the forum

on start up type when the blue screen comes on.

acpi=off

i call tech support and they told me to do that, and i did
it works now.

Some DecChips need an "old" driver

Add

alias eth0 tulip_old

in the file /etc/modules.conf

test it by depmod
and start it with
ifup eth0