Problem configuring LAN with Suse 10.1

[Ahmed Sayeed]

Hello friends,
I am a newbie user of linux. I have done a dual boot installation on my PC (Intel Pentium HT, Intel M/B 945GZ) for Windows XP and Suse 10.1 . I have this PC connected to my institute LAN, and the network works fine on XP, with the following :
Fixed (private) IP address : 192.168.10.96
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.5.50
Proxy: same as default gateway
DNS Server - our system administrator tells me I need not specify it.
Well, I tried to configure network on Suse 10.1 using the above details, with Yast. Apparently the network card is detected without any problem, and I even get a pop-op at bottom-right corner saying "you are now connected to wired network". But there the good news ends and I am not able to connect to internet. When I ping the default gateway I get "host unreachable".
I have pretty much tried every possible combination/permutation of configuration with Yast. I started with DHCP disabled and fixed IP address, but tried every other other possibility (looking at various remedies I found googling). When I do configuration with "user controlled" method, it goes through fine, but when I use 'treditional ifup' option, it hangs at 'activating network'.
Here is the response to ifconfig:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:E6:0F:BD:A4
inet addr:192.168.10.96 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:e6ff:fe0f:bda4/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3641 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:880 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:390800 (381.6 Kb) TX bytes:58714 (57.3 Kb)
Interrupt:225

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:102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6762 (6.6 Kb) TX bytes:6762 (6.6 Kb)


Thanks in advance for your help,
Sayeed

[kahoona]

When you are running Windows is your subnet mask 255.255.255.0? Or is it 255.255.0.0?

One other thing you can try is temporarily disabling your firewall to make sure that is not hindering your connectivity.

[aliov]

When you are running Windows is your subnet mask 255.255.255.0? Or is it 255.255.0.0?

One other thing you can try is temporarily disabling your firewall to make sure that is not hindering your connectivity.

Nothing to do with the firewall ,and as you suggest we will never manage to solve our problems without windows then .

inet addr:192.168.10.96 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

It's the Bcast (Broadcast) problem , usually should be something like 192.168.1.255, have you did something with YaST to set it ?
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[Ahmed Sayeed]

When you are running Windows is your subnet mask 255.255.255.0? Or is it 255.255.0.0?

One other thing you can try is temporarily disabling your firewall to make sure that is not hindering your connectivity.

Hello friends, thanks for you response. Kahoona, the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, and not 255.255.0.0. No DNS server specified in Windows either.
I tried connecting with firewalls stopped. It didnt help.

To aliov:
No, I did not set the broadcast address. I've kept DHCP disabled (it is so in XP as well, as I found out with ipconfig) , and other than that I only entered IP address, subnet mask and default gateway - thats all.
But may be I'll try and manually set broadcast address you mentioned, and see if anything happens.
Thanks so much again,
Sayeed