please help me, internet problem.

[ramen85]

Ok, I have SuSe 10.1 installed at the moment. Im fairly new to Linux but have talked to many friends that run slackware, fedora, ubuntu...etc about linux and the basics. Its been about a 3 weeks now that I have SuSe.

Anyways, to the problem. The first time I isntalled SuSe 10.1 everything was fine, i was able to get on the net without any configuration, got my ATI drivers installed and attempted to install XGL. I had to reinstall SuSe all over again because I messed up with xgl... so i reformatted and installed suse again. Once again, internet worked fine, i installed the ATI drivers and xgl again... got xgl working. For some reason, I wanted to go with KDE instead of GNOME and the noob I was at the time, I did a complete reformat and reinstall once again. The nic card is the an onboard VIA network card from a MSI KT880 mobo.

Installed KDE with no errors... HOWEVER, the internet this tiem did NOT work. I was not getting a valid router ip and dhcp was not starting it was getting the "no ip address yet......." I tried many many things by searching on google and bunch of linux forums. I tried all the ifup/down commands, lsmod to check if the NIC card module was loaded and also did modprobe <module name of nic card>. Still was not geting a good ip or even able to ping the router. I tried doing a static ip with the dns and default gateway, still not able to ping the router or anything.

Then i went ahead and reinstalled SuSE with format and with GNOME. Samething, right during the boot process I got the "no ip address.....yet" error at the DHCP part of the process. I again attempted forcing static settings, ran the ifup/down commands checked to make sure the module for the nic card was loaded and still no ip. I tried connecting directly to the cable and the exact same problem. I know the NIC is fine because when i boot to windows xp it works just fine. Now keep in mind, suse is on a seperate HDD and I do not have the windows HDD plugged into the mobo while i run suse. Ifconfig brings up the network card but shows no ip and route command only shows 127.0.0.1


I really have no idea what to do at this point. I've read many many threads from varies forums with similiar problems but not exact and still no luck with fixing the issue. I read one fix where unplugging the power cord from the pc might fix the issue, tried that and nothing still. My last thing to try is to pop in my spare NIC card and give that a try... but thats an easy fix and not the best.

plz someone help me lol. I really want to run suse with xgl and just forget windows

P.S: I tried installing Ubuntu and i had the SAME exact issue, it was not seeing the router or the modem... it seems like in both distros im getting a 169 ip. My cable is fine and so is the router and modem.

[ramen85]

anything i've missed or i can try?

im desperate now lol

[pavlo_7]

try rebooting router and modem.

[ramen85]

Yes i did reboot both. Forgot to mention it.

[monday90]

Can you ping your loop back address (127.0.0.1) this shows that you have the tcp/ip stack installed and working correctly. Beyond that it sounds as if you are missing drivers for your network card.

[ramen85]

Yeah I can ping the loop back (127.0.0.1)...

[framp]

Could you post:

1) output of ifconfig
2) output of route -n
3) Tell us the router IP address

[drubug]

Hi i have the same sort of issue.

I think mine is DNS related.

Running Slackware 10.2, installed all worked fine.

Added some packages and apache2, php etc.

Internet stopped working.

Checked /etc/resolv.conf and added in the name servers:

'nameserver ip'

still nothing.

checked i could ping the router set as the gateway. all works fine, can ping 127.0.0.1 ok


my route -n reports this

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
84.92.27.64 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 84.92.27.65 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0


the .65 being my router IP.

ifconfig is

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8BD:E0:28
inet addr:84.92.27.70 Bcast:84.92.27.71 Mask:255.255.255.248
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2267 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:452 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:152292 (148.7 Kb) TX bytes:54540 (53.2 Kb)
Interrupt:11



Sort of run out of things to check now...

The network is running ok, i can call up internet page running on the machine, i just cant get it to load any other pages. or do a wget from a http address...

any suggestions welcomed.