On Wed, March 22, 2006 9:36 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > 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. > > >
Oh and by the way your DHCP server should hand out the default gateway - if it doesn't then get whoever runs it to fix it! And are you sure the network card still works? I have seen them fried. PITA if its a laptop.
