can't get online
 

I just installed SuSe 9.1 on a IBM T-22 Thinkpad. Basically a good install, a bit flakey with the mouse, but a good install. SuSe was the first linux OS I learned on, so there is a kind of affection for SuSe. The laptop might be a little out of date for SuSe 9.1, but I believe it is still configurable. The problem is I can't get on line. I don't know the inner workings of Suse, no rc.conf, or whatever. Yast recognizes the eth0 card -- 3c59x, but still won't let me get online! Anybody know how to fix this?? -- Thanks in advance -- Larry

open Yast, then navigate to Network Devices then Network Card. Use this to make sure it is all properly configured. If you make any changes, reboot and test the network.

tell me if this doesn't work.

Edit:
You might need to download drivers, and make sure that all the laptop utilities are installed. I have never used linux on a laptop so don't know what they do, but one of them might help.

:( Thanks for the reply Gay. I removed SuSE 9.1, way to flaky and installed 9.0. Same problem. SuSE seems to recognize the card, it's DHCP that can't find the IP address. The message says "no IP address yet............backgrounding.
I guess a T-22 is a old laptop, and SuSE 9.0 is too old to bother with.(9.1 & up look very nice!)
I'm pretty sure I taking this out and installing Ubuntu.
Thanks for the reply -- Larry :)

I assume you have a DHCP server set up properly on some router or some other device? Can you ping 127.0.0.1? This will test out the configuration inside of Suse and the board.

Randy.

lmellon,
no, your T22 is not too old for 9.1. I have an A21m with 9.2.( started w/9.0 and quickly uped to 9.1 last week went to 9.2)
dhcp always backgrounds until it connects, depending on how long it's stated to try during boot in the sysconfig. I have a pcmcia card that I use for the Inet as well as the internal network card. I have never used card so I dont know for sure if there are any issues with it. Have you setup the card in yast yet? What do have the card pugged into?

9.1 was alot better for this than 9.0 but you'e seemed to have gon through 3 distros in 1 day! You're just playing Lotto. Who knows, you might get lucky one day. But If you are intrested in try to get this to work (give it a liitle more than (22hrs-8hrs sleep/3distro=4.66hours) somethings do take time.

I have exactly the same probleem :(