I purchased the professional version of SuSE 9.0. I am running this on my HP XT155 laptop. I am trying to get my machine to run off of my wireless LAN card, which i have confirmed is supported by SuSE. (Netgear MA401). I have had very little success making this work and im about to go toss my disks in the garbage im so frustrated. The card is recognized by YaST and i have configured the card with my Wireless LAN settings. I am able to ping 127.0.0.1 as well as my wireless router (Linksys 802.11b w/ four port router) My wireless router's IP is 192.168.1.1 I cannot connect to any websites nor can I ping any websites. Any thoughts on what I can be doing wrong? Please help me solve this problem before I abandon Linux for good.

Thanks in advance!!!!

-Vaughn

I should also note that I cannot connect to any sites via a wired connection either.

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Have you gotten any help with this, I'm having similiar problems configuring WPC11 ver3 with SUSE 9.0 Pro and a Linksys broadband router... let me know if you have any luck or advice?

I to had this problem with a SuSE 9.0 install and a Linksys Broadband router/4 port switch system. I could ping every item on my network to include the router. This is where I finally found the fix, go into Yast Control Center/Networking Services/Routing change the default gateway to be your router interface 192.168.x.x or try the expert mode, and set it to Destination 192.168.x.x/Gateway 192.168.x.x/Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0/Device eth0. The aforementioned IP’s is if you did not change your schema from that of the Linksys software. Of course the X’s are for own numbers. Hopefully this helps. -- Gr3yw01f

You need to have the default route set for the wireless card. Check the output of route and if you have 2 default routes or the interface for your default route is set for the wired NIC then you need to change it. There should only be one default route because it will use the first one listed in the routing table.

Therefore check the output of route - for instance the output for me is:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

If I want to use eth1 then I would have to change my default route by
route del default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0
route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth1

If you use dhcp to give you IP addresses and default routes then life is a bit easier because you can down the unwanted card and up the other one which should then grab the IP address and set the default route correctly for the active interface.
ifdown eth0
ifup eth1

Hope this helps.

I had problems with wireless networking on SUSE 9.0 and 9.1 --although my WIRED connection was fine.

I decided to spend the 19 USD on the linuxant driver solution -- works a treat on both 9.0 and 9.1 -- you don't need a new license to change distros or upgrade disros either.
You can get a 30 day free trial if you just want to check it out.

Much as I like the FREE idea of linux there are times where it pays to spend a FEW dollars to save a lot of time --especially if you are like me and don't really know a lot when it comes to networking.

Tip if you have both wired and wireless cards is to start the wired card MANUALLY and use HOTPLUG for the wireless card. If you need wired connection then just ifup eth0.

Check the wireless stuff with IWCONFIG

The LINUXANT driver takes care of loading and starting the Windows drivers. Worked ist time and considering the time it saved me I regard that 19 USD as well spent.

here's my /etc/sysconfig/network stuff

My Wireless card (Linksys WPC54G 54g card) ifcfg-wlan0

BOOTPROTO='static'
BROADCAST='192.168.7.255'
IPADDR='192.168.7.4'
MTU=''
NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
NETWORK='192.168.7.0'
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='hotplug'
WIRELESS_AP=''
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open'
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_CHANNEL=''
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'
WIRELESS_ESSID='belkin54g'
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=''
WIRELESS_KEY=''
WIRELESS_KEY_0=''
WIRELESS_KEY_1=''
WIRELESS_KEY_2=''
WIRELESS_KEY_3=''
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_NICK='linux'
WIRELESS_NWID=''
WIRELESS_POWER='yes'


And my ethernet card (eth0)

BOOTPROTO='static'
BROADCAST='192.168.7.255'
IPADDR='192.168.7.4'
MTU=''
NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
NETWORK='192.168.7.0'
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='manual'
UNIQUE='8otl.ahQyBPJk0AA'
_nm_name='bus-pci-0000:00:04.0'


I'm using a router with it's own gateway address and a Belkin 54g wireless access point.

I'm not using DFHCP but static IP addresses connected to the router. Works fine