ethernet is plugged in tho cannot surf!

[dafoster]

Ive got to the point now were there is hardly any hair on my head. I bought suse 10.2 the other day thinking well this will be good. tho im seriously doubting my judgement. I have set up my router onto the suse network manager and apparently says its plugged in and sending information across. Although.. when i click on firefox it comes up as page cannot be displayed or unable to find Blah blah blah, can anyone give any suggestions? the ethernet is being picked up in the bottom task bar tho no joy with browsing the net
To add i have went onto the firefox prefferences and changed the network settings to direct connection and defaults and tried and it still aint happening.

A fast response will be much appreciated as i need this system for work.

Dave!

[cheesecake42]

post the output of the following terminal command:

ifconfig

[alf55]

Did you configure your network card within "yast2"?

Are you using a dhcp assigned IP address are are you using a static address?

Are you going through a cable modem, firewall, etc? If so is that device handling the dhcp and gateway functions?

The are two commands an a file that can be used to determine your current connection info. These need to be performed as root or via the sudo facility.

The first is "ifconfig" which shows the IP_Address, Net_Mask, and Broadcast_Address. For normal routing the first two are important.

The second command is "netatat -rn" which shows the information on what addresses are routed locally through which devices. It also shows the default GATEWAY route for all other addresses to a computer (or router) that will be able to handle the unknown address.

The file of interest is "/etc/resolv.config" which shows the DNS server(s) that are to be used for finding the IP_ADDRESS for a given host name such as "www.google.com".

[Bugrem]

Hi

alf55 is quite right. The traffic you are seeing could simply be the network card communicating with your router.

Assuming the Yast default settings are OK, a quick and dirty way of checking if your problem is simply due to DNS issues is to fire up a terminal and ping a known IP address such as 212.58.224.131 (good old bbc.co.uk).

Is your router running a proxy service? If it is, you should enter its IP address and port number into Firefox's preferences/Manual Proxy Configuration, instead of Direct Connection.

HTH

B.

[dafoster]

Thanks for the reply guys much appreciated, ive had a look at the router and it seems to be running fine, two other computers running through it and is picking up the net no problems, i tried that ipconfig and i couldn't get any info up on it for some reason, im strating to run out of ideas, router is not going through a proxy, dns i have no idea i think it is set up correctly, Im a complete noob when it comes to this Linux,
I got to the point now were ive just went back to windows xp, its frustrating to work with suse system now!

[Maxei]

hey dafoster,
I had a similar problem some time back and was able to fix. please check this thread, maybe it will give you a few ideas to try. Good luck.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...lize-boot.html