Quoting Jason Hayes - HHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I managed to set up the new laptop with Suse 9 last night, rebooted, and > thought that I was going to start personalizing things. > > When the machine fired up, however, there was no networking and no > internet. > > When I check dhcp, it is running (changing to a static address does not > make any difference). I can ping 127.0.0.1, but pinging outside of the > network returns nothing.
You can always ping 127.0.0.1, as that is the loopback address for your own machine. The question is can you ping other machines on your network, and then can you ping other machines of the internet? > When I type ifup eth0, among the other output, I get an "inet > addr:0.0.0.0" and "RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:12 overruns:0 frame:0" It looks like your not getting the proper information from your DHCP server. What does your network look like? If your machine is hooked up to a router, make sure that the router has a DHCP server that is running and has the proper settings. Then go into the network configuration module and delete any setup that's there, and try to configure a new one. You usually don't have to specify the kernel module, but if it's still not working you can try to put sis900 in there. If it is a pcmcia ethernet card, then make sure you specify that within Yast. The other settings that you want to make you have are the enable dhcp and make sure you specify the gateway address as that of your router/dhcp server (usually 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1). If you don't have a dhcp server then you will have to give it a static ip, as well a host mask and dns servers. If you are hooked straight into a dsl/cable modem then you can get this information from your ISP. <snip> > While I still have lots more Googling and reading to do, I wanted to ask > and see if anyone here had ideas on how to handle this situation. Yes, try my suggestions, google is also a good source, so is http://www.linux- laptop.net/ Try to find your laptop on there and see what other people have done to get the network/sound working. > Is it a good idea to disable SMP in the new kernel (the laptop only has > one processor, but will SMP effect more than that)? SuSE has a specific kernel for smp support, and it shouldn't have installed it on your system. You can do a rpm -q kernel to double check this. You should have either the default kernel or the athlon kernel. > Would it be better to try and find a patch so I can keep SMP? As I said you probably don't have smp support in your kernel, and AFAIK there is no point in having it unless you have more than one processor. > Does the 2.6 kernel fix this problem? > > I would try one of the test kernels, but this machine is going to be a > primary workhorse and I cannot afford to have instability. If you are going to try 2.6, then I would stay away from the SuSE test RPM. D/L the stable kernel source and compile it yourself. > Any ideas that might point me in the direction of a fix would be greatly > appreciated. Hope I have helped some :-) > A far less disturbing issue with the install is that there is no sound > either. I do not know if the two issues are related, so I figured I > would add it just in case. Laptops often use wierd hardware, so it is possible that some of your hardware just isn't supported. It is also possible that it isn't supported under 2.4, but there is support in 2.6. It is also possible that you need to d/l 3rd party drivers. I know that with the nforce chipsets you need to d/l the nvidia driver to use the sound/NIC. Again, http://www.linux-laptop.net/ is the best source of information for this type of stuff. Worse comes to worse you could always buy a cheap PCMCIA NIC that you know is supported by Linux. I may even have an extra one that I can sell you. Good luck, Jesse _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
