Suse can't connect to net on a notebook
 

Hi All,

I ran Suse 9.3 on a Toshiba notebook for a little while, and it worked flawlessly

I have now installed Suse 10.0 on a NEC Versa E6000 notebook

I can't connect to the internet

I'm using a program called bpalogin
(bpalogin.sourceforge.net) with a cable modem - this worked on the toshiba in 9.3 straight away

I've installed it as I did in 9.3 on the toshiba.

But - I get no connection in 10.0 on this NEC notebook

Windows calls my network card -
Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC

Any advice on where to go from here?

thank u

Don't know anything about the machine, can you please post the output
of
lspci | grep -i ether

Cheers,
Tink

Have you tried to configure the card in Yast? And make sure the firewall is setup to adapt.
What is the output of `ifconfig` or `ifup eth0`?

thank u for your responses;

i had a look in yast and set it everything to auto detect or by dhcp(?) previously

here's the results of the commands;

+++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++ifconfig++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++++++

ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:96:C4:F8:B1
inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:fec4:f8b1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING 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:200
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Memory:e0140000-e0150000

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:5E:CC:9B:08
inet addr:155.143.4.9 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20d:5eff:fecc:9b08/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:766 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:46282 (45.1 Kb) TX bytes:28768 (28.0 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x400

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:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4220 (4.1 Kb) TX bytes:4220 (4.1 Kb)


+++++++++++++++++++
++++ifup eth0++++++
+++++++++++++++++++


eth0 device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:0d:5e:cc:9b:08
DHCP client is already running on eth0

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++lspci | grep -i ether++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

Cool now your getting somewhere' I see you have a valid IP that reverses.
Are you still having troubles geting online?

If not:
-Can you ping outside IP's?
-Have you checked /etc/resolv.conf for the correct nameservers.

micxz@mars:~> host 155.143.4.9
9.4.143.155.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer CPE-155-143-4-9.vic.bigpond.net.au.

when trying to ping i get
connect: Network is unreachable

or, it hangs, with no response

........
I saw this when I was restarting the machine - wondered if it was relevant?

failed services in runlevel 5: network
skipped services in runlevel 5: nfs smbfs

.........



resolv.conf contains

search vic

If I try and ping a URL (ie yahoo.com) i get

unknown host

I would add this to your resolv.conf

I got these numbers off the "http://bigpond.custhelp.com/" site.

[HTML]<pre>DNS settings for accessing BigPond State Primary DNS Server IP Address Secondary DNS Server IP Address
NSW, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, ACT 144.140.70.30 144.140.71.16
South Australia , Northern Territory 61.9.224.14 61.9.240.14
Western Australia 61.9.240.14

61.9.224.14</pre>[/HTML]