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Hello I just installed openSUSE 10.2 and I am trying to get on the internet how do I do this?

With the info that you have given, one can only say "configure it".

If you give some more detail, you will probably get more usefull answers.

how do you connect (telephone, DSL, cableTV, ...)
which modem do you have (internal, external, usb, serial, ...)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wim Sturkenboom (Post 2891354)

With the info that you have given, one can only say "configure it".

If you give some more detail, you will probably get more usefull answers.

how do you connect (telephone, DSL, cableTV, ...)
which modem do you have (internal, external, usb, serial, ...)

I have tried a wired connection and a wireless connection. I have a broadcom network card and I have an external modem.

So could someone help me please?

You can try using YaST2 to configure your modem. Is this a phone modem that you have of a DSL modem. There is a separate configuration module for both. There is also a network config module in yast where you can configure your network device. Depending on the wireless device you have, you may have more work to do before Linux recognizes your device and loads the kernel module it needs. Look at this sites wiki for instructions. The way to go, a native driver or ndiswrapper will depend on which controller chip your wireless device uses. The results of "lspci -v" and "lspci -n" will indicate the device used and it's manufacturer code. From there Googling for "linux wireless (<device-code> OR <device-name>)" will help you find the best way to go.

This might be one place to start: OpenSUSE 10.2 "Accessing the Internet" doc
In addition, you might also want to open up YAST and look under "Network Devices" -> "Network Card" to make sure your card(s) is(are) being recongnized properly.

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Originally Posted by pnellesen (Post 2892198)

I can see my cards with yast but still no internet.

What do you see if you bring up a console window and type (as root) "ifconfig"? Is the problem here that you don't have INTERNET access, or that you aren't getting an IP address from your modem (assuming your modem provides one)?

Quote:

Originally Posted by pnellesen (Post 2892229)

how do I do this? I am type root into the command window and it says that root is not a command?

See my other thread as well

In a console type "su root". You will then be prompted for the root password. Any commands after his point will be carried out with root privileges.

Something like this:

Code:

you@yourmachine:~> su root

Password:

yourmachine:/home/you #

Thank you then should I post ifconfig?

Here is some information:

ipconfig

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:22:90:98:B0

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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:1000

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

          Interrupt:217



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:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:3260 (3.1 Kb)  TX bytes:3260 (3.1 Kb)

lspci

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)

00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)

02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

ping 127.0.0.1

Code:

PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.072 ms

64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.062 ms

64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.058 ms

64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms

64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.066 ms

64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.063 ms

64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.061 ms

64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.054 ms



--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---

8 packets transmitted, 8 received, 0% packet loss, time 6999ms

rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.054/0.063/0.072/0.009 ms

Does anyone know what I should do next?

Does anyone know what this means?