[LBo] Getting Connected

[Stefan Waidele jun.]

Lynn Gallup wrote:
> [...]
> It is hard for me to believe that Novell failed to provide setup 
> capability for the internet in YaST.

They did. Usually they work very well.
Unfortunately, the automatic configuration did not work in your setup.

And when troubleshooting, the commandline is a very powerfull tool. We 
can tell you what to type, and you can tell us how the system reacted.

But you need to that, so we can help you. Even if the command do not 
make sense to you: Run them anyway.

Also, with using text-commands, it does not matter which distribution 
you (or those who help you) run.

This is how we are going to solve this:
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Your router's IP adress is 192.168.123.254. The router does also act as 
DNS and DHCP server.

We need to make sure that your Linux's network is configured in a way that:

1. It can reach 192.168.123.254, which means it needs to have a 
192.168.123.xxx ip-adress.
2. The default route is 192.168.123.254
3. DNS-server is set to 192.168.123.254 or to Roadrunner's DNS-server 
(better)

So, I want you to run the following commands, as root in a terminal:
--8<--------------------------------------------
script gettingconnected.log
ifconfig eth0 192.168.123.10/24 up
route add default gw 192.168.181.42
exit
--8<--------------------------------------------

After that, and if your Network-card is supported, you should be able to 
access the internet. Use Firefox or Konqueror to browse to 
http://82.165.35.203 so you can verify this. (Regular web-addresses 
might not work yet, so please try this numeric address)

Please tell us if this worked. Please do so by replying to this message 
and not by starting another thread.

The solution above is not a permanent one. The setting will vanish with 
the next reboot. But it will help us to get ahead.

Yours,

Stefan

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