No interent connectivity when adding suseopen 11.0 but 10.2 still works

[suselearner]

An installation of Opensuse 11.0 on top of an existing 10.2 (64 bit) went smoothly except when bringing up Firefox as there is no internet connection on the new release.

Could not access the Linksys default IP and am wondering how to get this working in 11.0 which would be a preferable platform.

Currently 10.2 works just as it has previously to the new addition. Can these have a shared connection or is one and only one valid?

[gogalthorp]

I don't understand what you are asking.

Is this a dual boot with 10.2 and 11.0?

I don't understand the question about sharing the connection. Each OS makes its own connection. You can not "share" connections between OS's dual booting on the same machine. It is a non sequitur. unless I'm totally missing something about your setup.

[suselearner]

The system can be started as 11.0 or 10.2.

As I understand the installation process a new OpenSUSE installation will preserve a previous version of another, older OpenSUSE version. Therefore the newer installation maintains parallel but separate versions. However since the new release maintains the same files on the desktop there is a sharing of directories although the operating systems are different.

The default version of Firefox is different in 11.0 as it is 3.0 but in the previous currently-connected release of 10.2 it is 2.0.

In any event the question is why there is no connectivity in 11.0 while preserving the status quo in 10.2?

[HROAdmin26]

If you install openSuSE 11, you will either A) install to different partitions and "dual boot" or B) use the same partitions and overwrite the 10.2 install (some people keep /home to save their user data.)

If you are running 10.2 and you *upgrade the kernel*, then you will see multiple kernel versions available for booting via Grub/LILO. But you're still using 10.2 - you just have an updated kernel.

No one has any idea what NIC you have, how it's configured, etc. OS 11 is not OS 10.2, so you have a new operating system installed and the NIC needs to be configured.

[artificialsynapse]

Okay, type the commands :

ifconfig

and

dhclient

Then post their output.

[JeffNetSite]

If you install openSuSE 11, you will either A) install to different partitions and "dual boot" or B) use the same partitions and overwrite the 10.2 install (some people keep /home to save their user data.)

If you are running 10.2 and you *upgrade the kernel*, then you will see multiple kernel versions available for booting via Grub/LILO. But you're still using 10.2 - you just have an updated kernel.

No one has any idea what NIC you have, how it's configured, etc. OS 11 is not OS 10.2, so you have a new operating system installed and the NIC needs to be configured.

Yah this is right and also I don't understand the purpose of creating dual boot on the same Distro. You're conducting a research about the difference of the two?

Anyways you need to give more information about your problem in order to solve here.