Connecting to ATT.net
 

After searching high and low in these forums I have a simple yet perplexing question. How the heck do you connect Linux to ATT.net. I have u-verse and have not been able to connect every way I have tried. Please help. I will forever be in your Penguin debt. Using SUSE 12

What have you done so far?

Is your ethernet interface up and working?
How is the machine hooked to your internet access point? Is the cable good?
Does your machine get it's IP address from DHCP or do you need to give it one?
Do you have a DNS server specified in resolv.conf?
Can you ping by IP address?
Does ifconfig or ip-addr show a working device?

Another words where is it failing? At what point?

Looking at the hardware listing it shows the Linksys WMP54g wireless Card connected but in the network connection it shows it not connected. The card previously got its IP from DHCP under Windows. I am a newbie to Linux so I will answer your other two questions when I figure out how to get to ifconfig and ip-addr. right now it's getting late here which means it's my bedtime.

question
very important
for some idiotic reason ( and not a good one) novell dose NOT have you make a separate root account with it's own password
( a pet peeve with OpenSUSE 12.1)

so did you make a root account WITH it's own password

for ifconfig

open a terminal ( r-click , actions,open terminal here)
type in
there should be a listing for "io" -- no network connection ( unpluged )

my cable connection is listed as "eth_s0_0 "

you can also use the GUI "yast"

there is a "icon where the MS windows "start" is ( assumming you ARE using the DEFAULT kde4 desktop )
click on yast
type in your root password

then in that gui menu you can get to the network gui

This may help you too.

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...ess_Networking
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sus...-x86_64-a.html
http://linuxwireless.org/
http://www.wikihow.com/Set-up-a-Wire...twork-in-Linux
http://opensuse-guide.org/wlan.php

Wow thanks for all the help. Being a holiday weekend this will have to be something I work on in my spare time. I am a photographer/hobbyist and going to take advantage of the last weekend of summer. Thank you all so much and I will post a success message.