Re: [SLE] Setting up DSL on SUSE 10.1

On Friday 03 November 2006 10:05, QiuFeng wrote:
As directed:
1. connecting laptop to a modem (ethernet line. I with Winduds there is a
password necessary.)
2. Simply go to Geeko (the start menu icon) > System > Yast (Control
Center) and then enter your root password.
Click on Network Devices and Network Card.
3. Click on User Controlled (With Network Manager) and then select which
network card you have connected (wired) to connect.
4. I have set default to the DHCP. When it said connected. Opened browser.
Unable to reach server message.
5. I use network tools. Ping the address that does show up when I
highlight the wired connection on the Nework Icon on taskbar. (Note it
doesn't show subnet
masks or anything. Just the address of my provider. As you surmised
inside the Router/Modem) The Ping is active and showing I'm online.

So you can ping any address? Can you - for example - ping china.org.cn or
pku.edu.cn? (I cannot ping them, but can get to their websites. I'm guessing
there might be a firewall issue.)




6. At this point I guess I should go to DSL configuration because it must
need the password and member/user name as in Winduds! It also needed the
password from the other Distros.

That may be. I setup my username/password in my router. It also has a fixed IP
address for the DSL connection.


7. After the setup a quick look at the network Icon on the taskbar and
I've got other information there. Subnet etc.

Good.


8. I open Firefox, Seamonkey, Ephiphany. Same message. Server cn't be
reached.
9. At this point I'm confused. Basically it seems that SUSE is not sending
information to the modem, such as my user name and password. or asking for
information
from the modem. I can't comprehend what I may be missing from the
process. I've looked ,but it's gotten to late now and I'm no longer alert,
for something
that I would use to activate internet service? A tool or program or
something that may be what I'm missing similar to Winduds. Place the Icon
on Desktop then click it to

There's a command line option to tell you a few things.

Open up a terminal (people are fainting to read me state this) and
type /sbin/ifconfig

This gives you information on your card(s) and to what they are connected.

Here's part of mine:

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:F0:99:30:65
inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
RX bytes:13658066 (13.0 Mb) TX bytes:1922377 (1.8 Mb)


What that is telling me is eth1 - which is my wireless connection - is up and
connected. It has an internet address (inet addr:) of 192.168.0.101 and is
using a subnet of 255.255.255.0

You can also see it has received 13.0 Mb of information (RX bytes) and sent
1.8Mb (TX bytes).

A non-active connection will look like the following:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:3F:15:9C:97
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11

As you can see there's been no transmission or reception of packets.

Another tool you can use is ifstatus. Type /sbin/ifstatus eth(x) - where x is
your card. I get the following for my wifi connection:

kai@sith:~> /sbin/ifstatus eth1

eth1 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
(rev 05)
eth1 configuration: wlan-id-00:12:f0:99:30:65
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"TheForce"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:11:95:72:38:22
Bit Rate=36 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm

You can see even in this abbreviated version that a lot more information is
displayed. I can see my configuration, the network I'm on, whether or not I'm
using DHCP and other items.


This should get you started.

One final question - I have several of my Mandarin and Cantonese speaking
friends using Red Flag Linux (http://www.redflag-linux.com). Would that be an
easier option for you in your country?

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