No internet after kernel compile

[peteh]

I thought I'd try my hand at compiling a new kernel (2.6.20.2) which seemed to go well. When I tried it though, everything seemed to work except internet. I think maybe it wasn't finding my router but I'm not sure.
I'm using kernel 2.6.18 ... and I'm happy with that but I just wanted to do the compile thing.
Any thoughts anyone?

[swerdna]

I thought I'd try my hand at compiling a new kernel (2.6.20.2) which seemed to go well. When I tried it though, everything seemed to work except internet. I think maybe it wasn't finding my router but I'm not sure.
I'm using kernel 2.6.18 ... and I'm happy with that but I just wanted to do the compile thing.
Any thoughts anyone?

If you su to root in a terminal and then enter ifconfig you will see whether you have an IP address. Cut & paste the ifconfig output here & let's have a look. Also, do you connect to the internet: dial-up, adsl, dsl, cable modem, other?, and do you use a router?

So in summary

1-ifconfig
2-connection
3-router?

Swerdna

[peteh]

So in summary

1-ifconfig
2-connection
3-router?

Swerdna

1 The code from ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:10
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:10/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:171 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:21173 (20.6 Kb)  TX bytes:13414 (13.0 Kb)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xe800

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:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3260 (3.1 Kb)  TX bytes:3260 (3.1 Kb)

2 adsl

3 router

I also noticed that it was going to runlevel 6 instead of 5 as it loaded and it couldn't load Apparmour.

[bryansmith]

You seem to have an IP address so that's not the problem. Can you ping anything?

P.S. If you decide to roll your own kernel, use the .config from an already working kernel and modify as needed.

[peteh]

You seem to have an IP address so that's not the problem. Can you ping anything?

P.S. If you decide to roll your own kernel, use the .config from an already working kernel and modify as needed.

I'm not using the kernel so I haven't ping'd anything - I'll try that later but I did copy the .config from my working kernel.

There seems to be quite a bit missing from the compile but I can't remember it all now I'll look again later.

Thanks so far.

[Locksmack]

Doubt it is the same problem but when I first installed suse I couldnt get internet working (although I could ping stuff). It seemed odd so I did some research and found out about an IPv6 problem that many have. An easy way to test is to open Firefox, go to about:config and search for the term 'ipv6' and toggle the value of what it shows. That will only work in firefox.

As I said its prob not the same issue but goodluck anyway mate.

[swerdna]

Well you have an IP address, and I'm assuming you get it automatically from the DHCP server in the router. You'd know if you had set it up for the alternative to DHCP (i.e. for fixed IP). The default if you're going to the net via a router usually works once you get an IP address. e.g. the router's at 192.168.1.1 and you should be able to ping that IP address in a non-root terminal. But check your NIC settings like so:

here's a pic from yast that might tell you all you need to do

but if confused, here's the pic in context

If you use the howto, bypass the network-sharing stuff and goto the suse--> intenet stuff, including firefox

Hope that gets you a bit closer, or at least eliminates some potential issues

Swerdna