[ILUG] suse network problem.. anyone comment.!

[Dale Dunlea]

> So I have suse 9.0 pro installed
> Connection to IrishBB works in windows but not suse.
> The hardware seems to be fine. Have tried three network cards 
> and one was not picked up. Should be a case of just putting 
> in the IP add, subnet mask, gateway and primary DNS and off 
> we go. the problem is also found with a bootable suse 9.1 cd. 
> YAST seems to handle the settings of IP add, subnet mask, 
> gateway and primary DNS. ifconfig -a gives the results below 
> (have at last worked a way to move a file so format stays 
> ...well almost) Thought it might give someone a chance to 
> give good comment on what to look at. I confess I don't know 
> what the full brake down of it says to me.. I have an idea of 
> some of it..

Are you saying that the IP address that you have under SuSE i.e
62.231.60.201, is not the one that IrishBB assigned you? If so, then
that's clearly the issue. You can change this with Yast by going to
Network Devices -> Network Card and give it a fixed address instead of
DHCP. The "Routing" option lets you set the gateway, the "Host name and
name server" option lets you set the DNS servers.

If the IP address setup is ok, try pinging know IP addresses like
193.1.31.98 (linux.ie) to see if it's just a nameserver issue.

Regards,
Dale.