Suse Linux Internet Connection

[alex_kent_18]

Hi All,

I am a new user for linux and now my system has loaded with Suse linux 10.1.

The system is running fine but i can't use the internet, though network manager is detecting the cable connection speed and ip address

If you guys have any idea to solve it, i would be very happy.

hope to get your reply soon.

Sincerely,
Alex Kent

[valemon]

Which browser are you using? Are you able to ping?

[Graybeard]

Which browser are you using? Are you able to ping?

Hi

I am another brand new newbie with the same problem. If I am allowed to join in at this point - Yes I can ping outside computers.

I have tried all the changes I can find and nothing allows me to browse with Firefox or Konqueror.

If I should not be intruding here please accept my apologies but it seems silly to start two threads on the same subject at once.

[valemon]

A possible solution would be to disable ipv6. Go to firefox and type "about:config" into the address bar. Then type ipv6 into the search bar select the line and set to false.

[uubeerdude]

I have been trying to get an internet connection going in SUSE 10.0 for about eight months now. Using many configurations and information on the web has not helped. I do not want to come to the point where I think it is a cruel joke. Would someone please help me? I am using a Dell L800r with an internal stratitec v92 modem, device ID: WDM-MODEM\LUCENTWDM_DF\WDMO. The driver is c\windows\system\vmm32.vxd(,1,019.88 KB(1,044,352 bytes), Not Available). That information does not mean an awful lot to me. I do not intend to work in computer science but find many of the programs really good.

It appears that I can open kinternet, but it shuts down after a few seconds. Not knowing much about this distro, I need a connection to work with to find the resources I need while running it. Suse help has little enough to offer.

I will appreciate any help. Perhaps the admin will consider a sticky for this issue. Or isn't it a pretty widespread problem?

[scrarfussi]

i dont know much about internal modems but when you go to yast hardware is your modem detected does it allow you to set it up if so try this check u have kppp installed then run it from terminal as root (if you run kppp as normal user you will get some error about permissions on pppd )configure it on modems you select the modem you found in yast you will even get option to query the modem and you can set up ur account etc hope this works for you

[Graybeard]

A possible solution would be to disable ipv6. Go to firefox and type "about:config" into the address bar. Then type ipv6 into the search bar select the line and set to false.

I followed the advice but ipv6 was already disabled.
Thanks

[tyc]

I have been trying to get an internet connection going in SUSE 10.0 for about eight months now.
... using a Dell L800r with an internal stratitec v92 modem,
... I can open kinternet, but it shuts down after a few seconds.
... a pretty widespread problem?

It may indeed be a wide spread problem. That it is unique to Suse, I honestly don't know but I can offer that in all probability it's something YOU are doing wrong; a setting(s) you didn't initiate or one you set incorrectly.

If I might suggest, consider taking a note book or note pad and software program by software program make a list of ALL the settings you need to get access to the Internet using your Dell and Suse v10.0. Then once you've done this and - one setting at a time - check and re-check those settings. Make no mistake, this can prove to be a very time consuming problem (which at this stage (v10.0) of Suse Linux development - it should NOT be!)

You might note that as has occurred here (several times in the past that I am aware of) and elsewhere you will be offered advice which for the most part will come from well intended individuals, none of which will work and you will (if you have't already) come across the self-styled "Linux Expert" who in reality might actually have some idea of what he/she is blathering about.

On this end I also have a Dell, an Inspiron 5100, and I also use Suse v10.0. Unlike you (so far) I am able to access the Internet with this hardware / software mix while only in ROOT - not as a USER. Exactly why this is at this point I don't know why but I do know (after a lot of trial and error) I did get it to work and odds are you will to - it's just going to take time but you'll probably get it to work, at least in ROOT.

Hope this is at least of some help.

TYC

[chris.olive]

Hello to all
Mind if i join in?
I have been running Suse 10.1 since December 06 and I am largely please but.
Whilst I have had no problems using an eithernet connection I cannot get the wifi link to work, I have tried everything I can think of and many answers from the web, nothing works.
Also the only way I can print via my network is by usb not over the eithernet, as this machine is a laptop [Compaq V4335EA] about one year old I feel there should not be a problem.
I also have a problem with Ark which has taken over opening disc's etc and then will not let me.
before I remove linux and run back to XP which works fine with wifi, printer and net.
I would welcome any help.
Chris: confused:

[kr4ey]

A possible solution would be to disable ipv6. Go to firefox and type "about:config" into the address bar. Then type ipv6 into the search bar select the line and set to false.

To disable ipv6 in Firefox you need to set to True NOT False.

Disable IPv6 for Firefox - openSUSE