hey people,
I installed SUSE 9.2 on a Accer Travelmate Laptop in dualboot with windows XP.

THE PROBLEM: I can not surf the internet (Connection failed)

I get Internet via a LAN Network and I have a Broadcom netcard - In XP everything works fine, in SUSE I can access local web site and the local net (access other computers in the LAN) but not the internet.

I saw other posts on this forum on this topis but it was not any help for me.

here are the outputs of ifconfig, cat /etc/resolv.conf, netstat -rn

I would be VVVVERY happy if someone could help me. A can not use SUSE
without having internet access.

idefix:~ # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:45:1D:C8
inet addr:172.16.60.132 Bcast:172.16.127.255 Mask:255.255.128.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:fe45:1dc8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2016 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1685 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:35
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:233649 (228.1 Kb) TX bytes:149070 (145.5 Kb)
Interrupt:6

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:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7724 (7.5 Kb) TX bytes:7724 (7.5 Kb)

idefix:~ # cat /etc/resolv.cont
cat: /etc/resolv.cont: No such file or directory
idefix:~ # cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain cds
nameserver 172.16.100.10
idefix:~ # netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
0.0.0.0 172.16.100.1 255.255.128.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
172.16.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.128.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

Just to be sure check if /etc/resolv.conf really exists. Even if empty the file sometimes is required and will report a error similiar to what your listing shows.

If it doesn't exists, as root, just: cat >/etc/resolv.conf
then ctl D to close and back out.
also check owners and permissions.

Just a shot in the dark but remember:

a journey begins with a single step
life is one day at a time

Paul_E_T

hey paul:
the file exists.
here's the output:

idefix:~ # cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain cds
nameserver 172.16.100.10
idefix:~ # netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
0.0.0.0 172.16.100.1 255.255.128.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
172.16.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.128.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

for luchticha:
It appears that your locked into the loopback. LAN stuff can be a head ack for sure. Best I can advise at this stage, since I am not fully involved with LAN's is break out the book and find out how to stop the loop back. Usually it's only a one time test -- usually.

It could be indeed e a MAC problem. XP seems to use sometimes a NetworkBridge with a different MAC as the networkcard. It seems that I am registered at the lan with this "false" networkcard and SUSE uses the real one....
I will see if it help...
thank you all!

For luchticha:

Have you used YAST to activate your NIC card ? I asked the question since sometimes the most obvious is forgotten to do.

Paul_E_T

I am having the same problem.... my computer connects through a lan and even though suse is able to detect the ethernet card it is not able to connect to the network.. i dont know why it is so.... also if i try pinging my host it says "network not connected" or "destination unreachable!"

perhaps anyone could help me in configuring my internet connection.........?

It was e a MAC problem. XP uses sometimes a NetworkBridge with a different MAC as the one of the fisical networkcard. It seems that I am registered at the local lan with this "false" networkcard and SUSE uses the real one.... (false network cards are the one which do not start with 00:....). So I told the network administrator and he registered me real MAC.
Now everything works fine.
thank you all!

Good work
keep on comput'n
Thanks for letting us know what was wrong.

finally! yes i did solve the problem of non connectivity............

it seems i had not specified the default gate way.......... so noway the computer can connect..........
and second i connected to my server but iwas not able to browse http nor any messaging...........
later i configured my dns servers and everything worked perfectly fine!!!
i am browing a lot in linux now a days.....!