ok, i preveousley had an install of suse 9.2 pro which had several problems, including no sound, and no intenret, i upgraded to 9.3 pro in hopes that these problems would be solved but nay. ssoo im posting here for help =)
ok the problems here now, are still no internet, and no sound, but now i am having troubles accesing my external USB hardrive. here below are some screenshots, for your viewing pleasure. =D

here is the error i get when i try to access my usb drive.
http://img235.echo.cx/img235/5070/usbdriveerror6hu.png

these are the permisions for my usb drive, as you can see i should have access.
http://img235.exs.cx/img235/385/perm...sbdrive5yt.png

this is the screen i get when i try to configure my network. it hangs at this screen for about 15 minuets, then moves onto the next screenshot.
http://img235.exs.cx/img235/9206/int...ngerror9gb.png

this is what it goes to afterwards.
http://img235.exs.cx/img235/963/networkconfig2qj.png

this is my device manager list.
http://img235.exs.cx/img235/7544/dev...gerlist4kh.png

ok if you need any more screen shots to help me out let me know, i will post asap. thanks for any help you can give me.

Go to the shell(press CTRL-ALT-F2), and login as root. Run ifconfig, and post its output here. You might want to run it as
and then open network.txt in KDE(or Gnome) and copy/past it here.
You can get back to your GUI by pressing CTRL-ALT-F7 once you're at the shell.

Also from the shell, try to go into the directory where you're USB drive is mounted. Like
(from the looks of your screen shots and see what it says when you try to do that. You might also want to run mount(just type mount at the shell) to see what/where stuff is mounted.

Cool thanks, I'll be sure to do that and put all the output here when I get home.

simply open terminal window, su to root enter command
#ifconfig > network.txt

alright here we go

this is my hardrive in the "media folder"
http://img76.echo.cx/img76/4677/myhddinitsfolder4hm.png

here is the output from ifconfig
http://img38.echo.cx/img38/7598/output3il.png

here a lil yellow sticky that pops up when i point to my drive, ... not sure if it matters
http://img38.echo.cx/img38/2273/thel...wsticky9ir.png

and heres what hapens when i try to open it from "media"
http://img38.echo.cx/img38/6704/whenitrytoopenit3ne.png

hi buddy, seems that you haven't the right to access that drive!

launch a root console and add you some rights like this :

#chmode -R 755 /media/Boogiepop

hope it helps

heres me about to run the command
http://img218.echo.cx/img218/697/running2dl.png

and heres what i get afterwards =(
http://img218.echo.cx/img218/9456/run8ta.png


what did i do wrong?

I dunno what happened, it seems that you haven't mounted your drive.

by the way, what filesystem does it has on it?

in any order, réplug your drive and open a console and type

gain root access
$su -
password : [type your root password]

go to where your drive supposed to be mounted
#cd /media/Boogiepop

list the drive contents
#ls -l

and see what it says. if you see nothing, this means that your drive hasn't been mounted. there is a problem (I'll think about that and try to connect my drive at home to help you more precisely)

It seems that and "e" got into that command somehow. Please try:

su -

chmod 777 -R /media/Boogiepop

This will make this world writeable. Very odd to have a usb drive be owned by root. What Filesystem is on the drive?
Also, regarding your internet, do you have a dhcp server running on the network? Is this computer connecting directly to the net via modem (cable or dsl)? Or are you on the inside of a network? From your first post on this topic, regarding your second screenshot of the network setup, you can select the change button on the lower right corner of the screen if you need to make any adjustments.

ill go home and do all that stuffs with the drive, right now im at school =)

my computer is connected to my router at home, which splits my internet to one other computer, the router is then connected to my cable modem.

Paridoth,
I'm not expert on the USB stuff, but I'm going to take a stab at the network issue you're experiencing.

First thing's first. If you look at the output from IFCONFIG, you'll see that you have no IP address for eth0 - which as you probably know is your ethernet interface. In case you don't know, this would be shown with an entry in the ifconfig output preceeded by "inet=" (without the quotes).

Your images show that your ethernet interface is configured with DHCP. In other words, the interface is going to receive all of its IP addressing information automatically from a DHCP server. You can't access the internet without an IP address. You either get this from a DHCP server (DHCP = Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), or you'll handjam it in yourself in the interface configuration screen.

So my first question: Do you have a DHCP server on your network? If not, then your ethernet controller is never going to receive the required IP address it needs to get to the Internet, and you'll have to do it yourself. DHCP services are usually available on your router, but they can also be set up on another computer.

If you do have a DHCP server, and it's located on your router, make sure the service is turned on. You'll also want to make sure you have enough IP addresses available from your server's address pool (this is only a problem if you have limited the address ranges for the DHCP server, and you have multiple computers on your network).

If you do not have a DHCP server on your network, you'll need to manually enter the IP information for the interface. In the screen you have denoted by image networkconfig2qj.png, click the Change button underneath the Already Configured Devices section of that dialog. This will let you specify the IP address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway for your network, as well as your DNS servers (usually provided by your ISP). You'll also need to make sure you disable DHCP (this may be automatic when you enter the IP address information manually - can't remember).

I hope this is of some help, and I hope that none of it was information you already knew. I know how insulting it can be to ask a question and have someone assume you don't know anything and tell you stuff you already know.

I installed it as well...all went fine..except my mouse stopped working! I was trying to get the middle scroll wheel to work..but then my mouse totally wont work in suse at all. Any idea whats wrong? It looks fine in the xorg.conf...i'll post it in a few moments, right now i'm on winblows. I may run the suse recovery thing.

ok before i switch over to suse to tweak with it as sugested i thought i would take a screen shot of my router settings as im not sure what dhcp and all that is about, all i know is its auto configured and working fine on my xp. (althought for some reason when i conect directly to my modem i dont get internet now but anyways)

so heres a screen shot, please dont haxzor me with this info, i have nothing you want anyways =P

http://img68.echo.cx/img68/6949/routersettings0vv.jpg

and heres the dhcp screen

http://img157.echo.cx/img157/3463/dhcp1rs.jpg

should i turn this off?

wweell i disconeted my router and conected directly to my modem, i ran ipconfig in windows and got the ip adress and subnet gateway that windows had no trouble getting automaticly, then i went into netowrk config on suse and entered these values in manually but nothing. ~sigh~ so i still have no internet, and i have no access to my usb drive, this is getting kinda lame.
here is a screen shot of my mount.
http://img227.echo.cx/img227/9339/mount9pv.png
everything is working in suse except my freekin internet and this usb drive fro some reason, i can get into the drive when im logged in as root, so i know its a permision problem, however when i attempt to change the permisions is tells my the drive doesnt exist.
and this internet issue, i have no idea about this, it should get all that info from my cable provider just like windows does right? and even if it doesnt, i took my ip adress from windows nd entered it manually, and still nothing. can anyone help?

To add to SchadeBoy's comments - you need for both DHCP to be running and for it to be using the eth0 interface. As root, run the following, which will bring eth0 down and back up again, and then start DHCP
Then run "ifconfig" again and look at the output - if it works, you'll see a real IP address associated with eth0. If so, your Internet access should be complete. -- J.W.