hi. just installed suse 9.3. im trying to use linux frm now on but i encountered some network problem.

the scenario:
im in a lan with no dhcp servr.
got a static address '192.168.0.3'
gateway is 192.168.0.1

configured net thru yast but stil, can't even ping lo or eth0.
please help. thanks! trying to learn too..

You may need to recycle your NIC. You can do this from the command line by issuing:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 up

Give that shot. It should work okay. If not repost!

thanks! ill try just what uve said!

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:09:CB:9FA
inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:9ff:fecb:9fda/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1758 (1.7 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x4000

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:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3328 (3.2 Kb) TX bytes:3328 (3.2 Kb)

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.1 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

didnt work. need help. tnx!

have you tried

ping 127.0.0.1

then

ping 192.168.0.3

then

ping 192.168.0.1

?

Give those a shot. The first one is your internal address (i.e your NIC). You know what the others are. If the first one fails, you might have a driver issue. Aside from that, I'm at a loss. Maybe triple check your settings and run through it all again.