I am trying to connect to Comcast High Speed Internet with Suse 9.0 Pro.

I am having trouble with my NIC card. At boot, someone instructed me to hit the F2 button to see what was happening, and sure enough, eth0 and eth1 failed.

How can I get connected? I have Yast set up for DHCP.

I came up with this somehow too:

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:162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets: 162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueue1en:0
RX bytes:11340 (11.0 Kb) TX bytes:11340 (11.0 Kb)


Thanks for any help that you can provide.

Jesse

try using static IP

if eth0 is connected to ADSL modem then most likely its address is 192.168.1.2 and gateway is 192.168.1.1..u can install bind and give nameserver as 127.0.0.1

Thank you for the response.

I am trying to connect with a cable modem that Comcast provided. RCA model # DCM315. I also have a wireless router (manufactured by the evil empire from Redmond, WA) so I can connect to the Internet with my laptop in my home.

So, the cable comes in from the wall, to the RCA cable modem, which then goes to the wireless router. I then have a network cable (the kind that looks like a phone plug but bigger) to my dual boot machine that has XP and Suse 9.0 Pro on it. The XP side works fine.

Yast shows that I have two network cards configured. However, eth0 and eth1 fail at boot (pressed F2 for details during start).

I tried to assign the address, gateway, and name server like you instructed, but it didn't work either. Bummer days!

Do I need to unplug the router and the cable box after I set the addresses? Why doesn't the DHCP work? Is the MS router not compatible with Suse? Do I need to install drivers or anything? I am a newbie but it shouldn't be this difficult!

Thanks again,
Jesse

Is it a party foul to reply to your own thread to get it back to the top?

DHCP works fine

try pinging both the ethernet cards and then your gateway and finally your DNS

once that is ok then try

#dig yahoo.com

if that is ok then try pulling down the firewall and opening the web page

if it works then reconfigure your firewall

else post your

network file

I guess that I am going to learn how to ping too.

Off to Google!

I think I had the same problem.

Try disabling the NIC card you are not using. I had a conflict somehow with two in a system I was running.

Thanks for the input.

I tried:

ping 192.168.1.2 and ping 192.168.1.1
Network is unreachable on both accounts.

ping 127.0.0.1
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.117 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.029 ms
and it kept repeating forever....

Is this promising?????

I looked in hardware compatibility and my MS Wireless Base Station MN-700 isn't listed there. Could this be the problem?

I also deleted that other card and the temporarily disabled the firewall. I don't think there are two on my machine, LOL! I am SO new.

What does ifconfig -a give you?

ifconfig -a gave me this:

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:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) TX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

The results of ifconfig -a indicate that the kernel is not recognizing your ethernet interfaces. You are missing drivers, have conflicts, or have hardware problems.

Thank you. Is it a good assumption that I am probably missing drivers because everything works on the XP side of my dual boot? Should I give up?

Happy New Year!

No. Identify the NICs by manufacturer and model number. Then, make sure you have the drivers loaded for Linux. BTW: recent kernels support most of the current hardware you can find. You may just need to go through the network setup again. I am a Slacker but one of our Suse gurus should be able to help.

I'm on it. Thanks again.

In Device Manager on the XP side:

Network Adapters
1394 Net Adapter (manufactured by MS)
Microsoft® PCI Adapter MN-130

Do they make drivers for these for Linux?