Hi All,
I am a novice and just shifted from Windows XP to SuSE 9.1 personal edition. I loaded SuSE on dell PC but could not browse internet. The network card (built-in intel Pro/100 VE) is fine as it used to work with windows.

From intel site, I found out that the latest driver e100-3.2.3.tar.gz is already installed on my system. I can only ping gateway but nothing beyond it. Also can not browse internet.

Any help is welcome. Onething I found using SuSE hardware tool is that it says network controller is available but configured:no. But if I click configure, it already shows the card configured.

Thanks for help!

Hi,

press CTRL-ALT-F1

type root

type your root password

then type
ifconfig
(tell us what it shows)
route
(tell us what it shows)
cat /etc/resolv.conf
(tell us what it shows)

by any chance are you behind a proxy server ?

Sincerely
Robert B

Thanks Robert,

Here is what I see:

ifconfig:
eth0: Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:F1:E8:5F:E0
inet addr: 10.0.0.62 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:f1ff:fee8:5fe0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:106 errors:0 dropeed:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes: 13996 (13.6kb) TX bytes:6242 (6.0kb)

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:52 errors:0 dropeed:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes: 3360 (3.2 kb) TX bytes:3360 (3.2 kb)
route:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default * 10.0.0.1 UG 0 0 0 eth0

cat etc/resolv.conf:
domain site
name server 81.19.0.67
name server 81.19.10.34

No, I am not behind a proxy server. In windows, I used to use connect directly to internet.

Thanks for help!

Hi,

type this at the console

ping -c 5 216.239.59.104 (this is www.google.com , just for the information)

is it pinging?

Sincerely
Robert B

I tried pinging the goolge site. no response. it says 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3998ms

Hi,

can you ping another computer (if you have another one there) ?

Sincerely
Robert B

Hi Robert,
No, it does not ping other computer. But the funny thing is other computer can ping my Linux computer.
Thanks,
Aravind

The Linux system does ping the gateway though (in this case 10.0.0.1)

Hi,

open up the console

and type (as root) /etc/init.d/iptables stop

try browsing again, try pinging the computers


Sincerely
Robert B

Hi Robert,
I was able to resolve the problem. The problem is, we had two routers in office. one is Cisco and another Dlink. Only Cisco was connected. Dlink was just additionally on the network, being used as hub. I just removed the Dlink and then everything works fine now! I am sure you will understand better what would have gone wrong than me.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Cheers.
Aravind

Hi,

I'm glad you managed to do it

Sincerely
Robert B