SuSe Ethernet Networking Problems
 

Alright, first off, I am semi-noob to Linux. I have already installed Mandrake and gotten this network card to work, but I wanted to try some other distros (I also didn't really like Mandrake).

Ok. I have a Davicom 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet card installed. YaST recognizes it and everything. Great. When I go to configure it, I put in all the information taht I think is correct and finish up. Excellent. Now I fire up Firefox and WHAMMO!, "page cannot be found"

I then moved on to try the Konqueror browser and got nothing. I have tried multiple other configs in YaST but non seem to work.



HELP!

Hi,

And welcome to LQ!

What output do you get from ifconfig and route in the
command-line as root? Also, how is the network set-up,
do you use static IPs or DHCP?


Cheers,
Tink

I am using DHCP

and when i type ifconfig in the command shell:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:78:69:8D
inet6 addr: fe80::280:adff:fe78:698d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:101 errors:630 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:3
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:9967 (9.7 Kb) TX bytes:140 (140.0 b)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0xd800

lo Link encap:Local Loppback
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:1009 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1009 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX byter 78993 (77.1 Kb) TX bytes:78993 (77.1 Kb)


and when I type route: (please interpret line breaks as spaces!)

Kernel IP routing table

Destination
loopback

Gateway
*

Genmask
255.0.0.0

Flags
U

Metric
0

Ref
0

Use
0

Iface
lo


thanks

It obviously didn't obtain a lease... which DHCP client is SuSE
using?


Cheers,
Tink

how might one find out which DHCP client Linux is using?

ps -A | egrep -v "(dhc|pump)"

should catch the three more popular ones.


Cheers,
Tink

Moved: This thread is more suitable in SuSE, since the solution is quite likely to be distro-specific, and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

when I type "egrep -v" I get

Usage: grep [OPTION]. . . Pattern [FILE]. . .

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and when I type "ps -A" I get:

(for sake of space saving, I am only going to list the entries that came w/o question marks + underscores are spaces)


PID____TTY______________TIME___CMD

16547__tty1____________00:00:00__minegetty
16548__tty2____________00:00:00__minegetty
16549__tty3____________00:00:00__minegetty
16550__tty4____________00:00:00__minegetty
16551__tty5____________00:00:00__minegetty
16552__tty6____________00:00:00__minegetty

6653___tty7____________01:51:27__X

10832__pts/1___________00:00:00__bash
10041__pts/1___________00:00:00__ps


*All other entries has a question mark under "TTY"*

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Just copy and paste that ENTIRE LINE into a terminal.


Cheers,
Tink

ok sorry - I am working from a laptop with XP so i am trying to save myself some time so again I am only going to give you the ones with something under tty...

ps -A | egrep -v "(dhc | pump)"

[CODE]

PID___TTY_____________TIME__CMD

16547__tty1____________00:00:00__minegetty
16548__tty2____________00:00:00__minegetty
16549__tty3____________00:00:00__minegetty
16550__tty4____________00:00:00__minegetty
16551__tty5____________00:00:00__minegetty
16552__tty6____________00:00:00__minegetty

6653___tty7____________01:54:41__X

11374__pts/1___________00:00:00__bash
11382__pts/1___________00:00:00__ps
11383__pts/1___________00:00:00__grep

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all others were marked with ? marks

anybody got anything?

I still suggest you copy & paste what I gave you. The
output that you posted doesn't match the results my
command could have at all.


Cheers,
Tink

after copy and pasting the exact code that you gave me into the linux console, I got this as my output:
http://www.geocities.com/operationboredomcss/dhcp.txt

I used a friends website to upload the .txt file cause when i put it on the forum, the spacing gets messed up

thanks

Oh doh. My apologies. Take the -v out, I was having a blonde
moment.

Haha, its fine. I was beginning to think that I was having some serious konsole problems. Anyways.....


when I type "ps -A | egrep "(dhc|pump)", the output is:

and I guess that means that I am using DHCPCD. But you're the expert and I'm the n00b, so what do I know?