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Im trying to get on the internet with suse linux. My motherboard is Asus M2n32-sli, What do I need to do to hook up to the net? Ive already gone into yast and given the network controller an ip address.My computer is connected to the internet by a Netgear bridge unit. The bridge unit receives the wireles signal from the router that is actually connected to the web.
Just go into "Yast2, Network Devices" and "Edit" your network card:
1) Dynamic IP Address
<= This is usually your "best" choice ... assuming your bridge or router supports DHCP
2) Static address
<= Specify your IP and netmask (these must be on the same subnet as your bridge)
Specify your gateway (the bridge itself)
Specify your hostname, DNS IP addresses, and any other pertinant info
If you go for DHCP ("dynamic addressing"), then it should be easy. VERY easy.
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
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Only thing to me if the nic is detected and set the IP, gateway, DNS values if static or if dynamic it does it own. Then my guess is a security feature like maybe mac filtering enabled on the router.
Here is the result of those commands:
ifconfig eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:a7:74:66
inet6addr:fe80::217:31ff:fea7:7466/64 Scope:link
Up Broadcast Notrailers running Multicast MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:80 errors :0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:23 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:12464 (12.1kb) TX bytes:0 (0,0 b)
Interrupt:50 Base address:0xe000
Looks like eth0 is not assigned an IP or failed to lease an IP if dhcp is used.
In SuSE YOU use Yast to configure Networking . 4 steps. 1) Setup YOUR PCI Ethernet Card <If LAN device is chip on Motherboard, see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html>. Check all the questions including "advanced" and "details". "Start at bootup" is a sure thing. 2) Setup YOUR Router or modem. 3) Setup DHCP to be the choice. Skip "static" unless YOUR ISP has assigned YOUR Nameserver to be a static IP. 4) Reboot the system. <"Save" and "Finish" and close your Yast Session, and also close YOUR browser.> After rebooting, YOU should be online. Remember, YOUR Primary Nameserver, Secondary Nameserver, Gateway, are needed to setup Networking. Use "ifconfig -a" to see all the settings. Good luck.
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