no internet plz help

[a.lost.soul]

Hi ppl for some reason I cannot connect to the internet using SuSE 8.2pro ??? it notices my ethernet card and to get the IP from my linksys router. I even tried connect just through the cable modem and still nothing. I have also looked on google and altavista with no luck if any one has a tip or suggestion with would be greately appreciated ;D

TIA
a.lost.soul

[pbharris]

hello,
are you using DHCP? try this -open a terminal ( e.g. xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal) and type /sbin/ifconfig - if eth0 comes up then it should at least be configured - here is what i get.

[pbharris@bugs ~]/sbin/ifconfig 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF  
          inet addr:192.168.0.4  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:187711 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:100293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:272654874 (260.0 Mb)  TX bytes:7874403 (7.5 Mb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:5013397 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5013397 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:4268982015 (4071.2 Mb)  TX bytes:4268982015 (4071.2 Mb)

[pbharris@bugs ~]

if that does not get you naything can you please do this
in a terminal type su - then type ifup eth0 - then let us know what it said.

welcome to ljr

[a.lost.soul]

Hi I have tried both ifconfig and ifup eth0 with no luck but when I was looking at the "inet addr" I looked at mine at it was completely diffrent. it read "inet6 addr:fe80::220:edff:fe5c:2b3a/64" now I have no clue what this means ??? but it can't be a good thing.

a.lost.soul

[CP]

Can you post the output of ifconfig? If not, did you have a similar output to PBHarris?
Cheers
CP

[a.lost.soul]

CP my ifconfig output is almost the same excpet for that "inet addr".

a.lost.soul

The Difference between the two is what you posted is called a Mac address. Its a hexidecimal representation of the "ID" for your network card. As a general question, when you configured networking during installation, what ip address or interface did you put in as your gateway? What ip address did you put in as your DNS servers?

[a.lost.soul]

oh...well during the install I didn't know what to enter for the IP gateway or DNS shouldn't it have suse done it all by itself???

Not really. Im guessing the ip addess of your router is 192.168.0.1. Need to make sure that your gateway is set to that ip address. The route command should show you where your gateway is pointed. As far as dns, you need to find out what the ip addresses are for your isp's name servers and put them in. Im not sure where these things are in Suse.

[pbharris]

hello,
please open the file /etc/modules.conf and see if there is anything in that that says alias eth0 <something> - this is to load the driver.

[Tyr_7BE]

Try this. I assume you're on cable modem. Become root user with the "su" command, and then type "/sbin/dhcpcd". If this command doesn't exist, search for dhcpcd on google or freshmeat and you'll come up with something to install.