On Wed, March 22, 2006 9:32 pm, Roger Searle wrote: > Hi, on my main work machine I have a fresh install of Suse 10 with no > connection to the network. I can > ping localhost and 127.0.0.1 but not to the router - which is reachable > from > another machine. > > I have set (in yast) the network card to obtain an address via dhcp and > set the > default gateway to be the router (10.1.1.1). I have turned off the > firewall. > Restarting the network gives: > eth0 (DHCP) . . . . no IP address yet.... backgrounding > > And still can not ping beyond localhost. ping 10.1.1.1 gives "network is > unreachable". > > "/var/log/messages | grep eth0" shows numerous lines of "no IPv6 routers > present" and 2 instances of "no link during initialisation" and "link up". > > What should I look for now? > > Cheers, > Roger > >
ifconfig -a will tell you if the card has been detected at all. is there some support for ipv6 that you included? It can give problems if you don't have an ipv6 network.
