SUSE 10.2 help please

[SoloTOandO]

I'm a very new Linux user. I just installed Suse 10.2 and for some reason, I can't access the internet. How do I even begin to start troubleshooting this? What do I need to set or configure? Thanks in advance.

[filippos]

use YetAnotherSystemTool (YaST)

[daark.child]

Are you trying to setup a wireless or wired connection? Usually network connections are setup from the Networking module of YAST.

[SoloTOandO]

Yes I'm using wired Ethernet cat 5 cable.

[martinfromdublin]

Open YaSt, select 'Network Devices',select 'Network Card' you should now see your network card highlighted. This is what appears under my system;

Device Name: eth-id-00:10:b5:10:26:ca
Started automatically at boot
IP address assigned using DHCP

What is listed for yours? Also, is this your first delve in SuSE? 10.2 is a community release, it may have unfixed bugs in it,if this is your first SuSe,10.0 might be better for you as although older, most of it's bugs are fixed.

Martin

[Quillz]

Does your network have encryption? If it does, make sure you've entered a WEP or WPA key.

[SoloTOandO]

Quills, yes my network uses WEP key. Do I need to enter this in for SUSE? I also have Fedora Core 6 box up and running and it got onto the internet just fine. So it's definitely SUSE related.

Where do I enter my WEP key on SUSE?

[SoloTOandO]

Martin. I'm assuming the little creature thing is YaST. But honestly I don't know. But I go to Application/Internet/Network Information/ This opens up a window call Devices - Network Tools. On the Devices tab, where it says Network device, there is a pull down menu where I have to change it to Ethernet interface eth0 and it says it's using protocol IPv6 (instead of 4, I know that sometimes this causes problems on some windows setups) and it gives me a funky long IPv6 ip address. That has to be throwing off my 2Wire router/modem. But I'm only guessing.

If I'm not looking in the right place, you'll have to tell me how to find and open YaST. Sorry for being a Newb.

BTW I'm using KDE if that has any bearing on anything.

[SoloTOandO]

Martin. I figured it all out. I don't know if me being logged on as a regular user was the problem to me not seeing Yast but I searched for it and opened it but using my root password then with your instructions I reconfigured it to set up automatically.

During my installation, I was trying to add the SUSE box to my Windows domain and I set something that I wasn't suppose to set.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. (feels like I learned something already) lol.

Now to figure out how to add this to my Server 2003 domain......

[martinfromdublin]

Glad I could help!