internet problem with SUSE prof. 9.1

gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
i can't connect to the internet in SUSE linux prof. 9.1

lan card installed useing DHP also tryed using static

still no go

connect via router to a cable modem

any help aperciated

duel boot on the laptop i have

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  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    what does /sbin/ifconfig tell you?

    Can you ping google, via it's IP? (216.239.41.99) If you can, you need to set up you computer to use the correct dns server.
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    it tells me nothing

    it will not run at all
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    are you root?

    try "locate ifconfig" to make sure it is in /sbin . If it's elsewhere, run it regardless.
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    i found it but it would do nothing at all
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    it should give you some output. for example, mine says the following:
    eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:E0:43:32
    inet addr:192.168.0.151 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
    inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:ccff:fee0:4332/64 Scope:Link
    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:6082455 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:7586395 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    RX bytes:4114740144 (3924.1 Mb) TX bytes:639351868 (609.7 Mb)
    Interrupt:5 Base address:0x9000

    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:543 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:543 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
    RX bytes:55051 (53.7 Kb) TX bytes:55051 (53.7 Kb)

    Can you ping your router? Also, is this a PCMCIA card or built in?
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    heh i am a linux noob this is my first ferway with it

    the lan card is internal and it showes it in hardware settings

    i clicket on it and it just sat their and did nothing

    waited for a full 2 minuts
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    my windows install works fine with the internet
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    That, and....

    I set up things here so my router feeds DHCP and DNS to my Linux box. Thus, I need dnsd and dhcpcd running from box startup. I had to match mask to router mask, and tell SuSE my router's LAN-side IP for both DNS and DHCP-- in fact, I found I could also skip the router LAN-IP for DNS and tell Linux to go directly to the local DNS IPs, and if I wanted to accept a dynamic DNS seek on every web connect almost, I could dispense with dnsd entirely. That got me a connect to web as soon as I restarted the network connect right from within the GUI using SuSE's "system control panel" networking applet-- I never had to do ANY lowlevel editting. If you need PPPoE for a DSL\ADSL connect, this is even more fun to do, but cable broadband with a router in place is pretty easy-- my Linux box thinks it is on a LAN, the router knows where on web to send DNS requests to. SuSE and Mandrake and (RH) Fedora Core 2 all work with about the same setup.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    gibbonsl wrote:
    my windows install works fine with the internet


    can you ping 216.239.41.99 ?
    in console, type "ping 216.239.41.99"
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    i will try your suggestion later am watching somthing that i do not want to start over.

    currently running the xp side of the laptop

    thanks for the advice will post if it works :cool:
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    shwaip wrote:
    can you ping 216.239.41.99 ?
    in console, type "ping 216.239.41.99"

    from windows or linux?

    sorry for the ? i am new at linux
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Also try pinging your router.

    basically, this is just testing whether the problem is with your DNS or elsewhere.

    in linux. You should be doing all this in linux.
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    thanks as soon as this is done i will try :thumbsup: thanks agine guys
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    shwaip wrote:
    Also try pinging your router.

    basically, this is just testing whether the problem is with your DNS or elsewhere.

    in linux. You should be doing all this in linux.

    never mind i just saw the other post
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    don't know what i did but i can get to google using 216.239.41.99, and even do a search, but it will not take me anyware using a www

    the search that google comes up with don't work eather
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    try this, you may need to be root.

    (my comments are by #)
    #login as root
    su
    #creates the file if it doesn't exist.
    touch /etc/resolv.conf
    #updates your dns server
    dhclient
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    how do you get to root?
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    type
    "su -"
    It will then prompt you for your root password, which you set when installing.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    btw, to expedite things, to browse this site by ip, use this for the address: "198.64.189.142"
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    got it currently on the site in linux :Rocker:

    thanks guys for the help:)

    currently updating linux this is fun

    :cool:
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    is their a way to transfer book marks for windows firefox to linux?
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    I think this should work. (several steps required)

    Boot into windows, open firefox, and export your bookmarks (from the "bookmarks" menu, click "manage bookmarks". Then click file>export. Save it somewhere on your c:\drive, just remember where it is.

    Boot into linux, and login as w/e your username is.
    become root (use "su -")
    make a directory for mounting the drive ( "mkdir /mnt/windows")
    assuming your windows partition is ntfs:
    determine what partition windows is on ("/sbin/fdisk -l")
    you'll get an output like this

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hdc1 1 24321 195358401 83 NTFS

    Whichever partition says ntfs, remember this.
    mount the windows partition ("mount -t ntfs -o ro -o umask=222 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows")

    Replace /dev/hdc1 with whatever your windows drive is. it will most likely be /dev/hda1. Now, open firefox in linux, go to bookmarks->manage bookmarks->file->import, and browse to /mnt/windows/(whatever directory you saved the file to)
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    i was in luck the windows drive was already mounted

    i just copyed the bookmark file from firefox and imported via mozilla
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    haha...I'm used to fedora which doesn't have native ntfs support...so when I wanted to do something similar, I had to mount the drives myself...as well as install drivers for ntfs.
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    they make it realy easy

    their a windows drive in my computer: :cool:
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    SuSE 9.1 and Mandrake 10 can both read NTFS also. Hard part is not to write to it, and that can create issues on XP's subversion of NTFS. 2000's version is pretty well figured out now, though. Just as much as possible if this is a Windows XP drive on your computer, don't stick things ONTO it from Linux. Windows will never know you read it from Linux, but if you write to a Windows XP drive that is NTFS Windows might not like the results of that unless Widnows does the writing. Result of that is that I had a FAT32 partition when I multibooted, just for sharing stuff that Windows needed to be able to access too. Both Windows and Fedora and SuSE and Mandrake and Gentoo and Slackware will agree to handle FAT32 right. If you do write to an NTFS ala XP drive, run chckdsks often at least, that particular version of file handler is beta (test) for writing to XP's NTFS structure. For reading FROM NTFS of any kind into Linux its ub3rfine.
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited August 2004
    thanks for the heads up :thumbsup:
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Welcome, and sorry for taking so long to reply-- been VERY busy getting ready for things like hurricanes (1, possibly two, Class 1 or 2's will hit parts of Florida's WEST coast in next 72 hours as of now per NOAA), getting the business together more, and clients with junked up boxes wanting them cleaned as well as getting stock in to open a flea market booth for "snowbird" season down here. Also, today, was saying fairwell to a good friend for 4 months or so, he is going into the US Army as an MP specialist.

    John.
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