Nick Rout wrote:
> 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.
>>
When I'm next at the machine on Friday I could post ifconfig -a. Today
I ran it earlier without the -a, it showed output for lo and eth0 - mac
address was there, there were a few TX bytes, zero RX bytes. I forget
what else...
>> is there some support for ipv6 that you included? It can give problems if
>> you don't have an ipv6 network.
>>
I did not do anything to add support for ipv6. I simply did the
install, noted that the network test failed, as did trying to get up a
web page and the simple pings. All I did then was go to Yast to look at
the network card settings and the firewall as above.
>>
>>
>>
>
> 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!
>
Yes, it does give out gateway info to the other machines on the
network. I specified the gateway after knowing there was no network
connectivity in an attempt to get it functioning.
> And are you sure the network card still works? I have seen them fried.
>
Yes is functioning fine in Windows.
> PITA if its a laptop.
>
Is a desktop.
