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I have no router lying around. When I unplug my laptop (with suse) and plug in my win mac, i've an internet connection without doing anything else. For ipconfig result see post above.
I wanted to get to know linux, so i installed it on my laptop to play around with. If i could just get internet to run, id have a solid starting position.
I realize i'm lacking general IT (orwhathaveyou) knowledge here, but hey gotta start somewhere.
open command prompt on windows machine and run below command and paste output here.
i.e
Code:
c:\ipconfig /all
Regards,
Last edited by sem007; 09-17-2010 at 07:29 AM.
Reason: typo
First off does your modem have a gui (a ip that allows you to log into your modem like 192.168.1.1. If so its on your modem or should be). If it does not then you also have an internet light on your modem. Is it on when you have the linux machine plugged in. How do you connect with windows. Just plug in an go or do you have to go to start>connect to> your connection here?
Its possible you do have a PPPoE connection which requires a login and password to connect to the internet. What would really help look on your modem and tell us what make and model it is.
I'm unable to paste the lsmod data. Figured i'd save it to usb device then connect to win mac, but open office is giving me the "saving using protocol "media" is not supported" error.
Sigh.
Seems I can't even save to the harddisk on the laptop right now.
hey hi that means you dont have to do anything to get connected... good.. that means you get ip dynamically and in suse you are facing problem in configuring Ethernet
use yast or yast2 to configure ethernet card and slect Automatically connect via DHCP
also use yast or yast2 to disable firewall
if you follow these two steps you will get connected
find /lib/modules -name r8168.ko, no output; returns me to command line prompt.
Ok, that's not so good. I just checked and it seems suse 10 is from circa 2005 which may be before this driver even existed. Can you please let us know what your kernel version is? You can find out with the following command:
Code:
uname -r
Evo2.
PS. Suse experts: please correct me if I'm wrong about the age of suse 10.
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