SUSE 10.1 & LAN Problems....

T4i

Hopefuly some one that reads this is farmiliar with SUSE and how to configure network.

Installed SUSE last night and spent about 2 hours trying to connect to internet. Really don't understand what I'm doing wrong....

All the other Linux systems that I've tried connect to the internet with no problems at all.

Problem I'm having is seeing my router, I can ping loopback and the IP of my P.C but can't ping router.

192.168.0.1 - Router
192.168.0.10 - PC

I've disabled DHCP when configuring the NIC. Entered 192.168.0.10 into the IP addy, 255.255.255.0 for subnet mask - also disabled the firewall in that screen just in case it was that blocking traffic.

On the other page I entered 192.168.0.1 as the default gateway......

Anyone help?
Thanks...

wolfman

Can it pick it up when DHCP is enabled?

Maybe try something like
su ifconfig

Also what shows up under
Yast > Network devices > network card

T4i

Even with DHCP enabled my router seems to be hidden.

Just spent hours on the net trying to find other people with the same problem as me.......

Looks to be a common problem with :- eth0 device: nvidia corporation MCP51 ethernet controller (rev al)

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-networking/70766-suse-10-1-internet-connection-problem.html

FIX
It's a known problem with select NICs when you dual boot with XP that the internal microcode gets screwed up when you then boot into Linux. Power down completely and remove the power source, let drain completely and boot into SUSE without using XP first.

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I'm not having much luck with Linux, its making Windows look pro. Debian couldnt see my SATA drives, Ubuntu doesnt have what I need to write a flash image and SUSE has a bug that affects the internal NIC microcode.

Makes it all fun though :rotfl:

wolfman

What's up with Ubuntu? What do you mean by flash image? Just wondering if I could help there as it's my distro of choice (that and Gentoo).

It did take me a while to get all the Linux equivalents sorted, but I'm generally ok now. It's games, development (.Net) and ripping (AutoGK, EAC) where Windows is still supreme. And audio to a certain extent if you're a foobar fan.

There are some good ports on the way. FileZilla is one, it's in beta 3 or 4 I think. and Songbird which is multiplatform.

And you can't beat Beryl for eye candy.


Linux can be a bit funny though with which distro's and which version of each distro will and won't work.

The trick is to note down everything you remove, add, any scripts you need etc... Take an image, then when a new release comes out, try upgrading, and if it fails, just revert and wait (see if any fixes come out or if others have the same problem etc...).

T4i

Thanks for the reply wolfman.

The packages I need in my distro are:-

- cvs
- autoconf >= 2.57a
- automake >= 1.8
- libtool >= 1.4.2
- gettext >= 0.12.1
- make >= 3.79
- makeinfo (texinfo)
- tar
- bunzip2 (bzip2)
- gunzip (gzip)
- patch
- infocmp (ncurses-bin / ncurses-devel)
- gcc 2.95 or >= 3.0
- g++ 2.95 or >= 3.0
- flex
- bison
- pkg-config
- wget
- libpng2 or libpng3 (DirectFB)
- ftpd (or other ftp server)

Then I have a list of commands to make the .IMG

I tried Beryl on Ubuntu and was impressed with the eye-candy. Beryl did seem to crash quite often though, so in the end up I just didn't run it.

wolfman

Ah ok. Quite a list there. I'm only familiar with a few of them.

I don't see why they all shouldn't run on Ubuntu. It may take a little time playing about though.

With regards to CVS, you may want to look at SVN instead. I've not yet installed either on Ubuntu though as I've yet to look into a client (like TortoiseSVN in Windows). I don't think I'd be overly happy about using command line.

ftpd definitely installs. You can get quite a good GUI for it. You'll need to google gproftpd. I've partially got mine setup. It's good, maybe not as good as filezilla server though (in terms of simplicity).

You may also want to look at KDevelop or Eclipse with regards to an IDE and development suite. KDevelop is very impressive, similar to something like Visual Studio.Net.

I've been lucky with Beryl in that it's stable on my system. I don't actually get any crashes. Mainly just the odd bug, but nothing that a session restart, or reboot won't fix.