no network access

From: Andrew (eagle_at_charter.net)
Date: 09/24/05 

Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:04:58 -0500

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.suse/browse_thread/thread/1af364900048fcd6/a09d926570b69565?q=lost+network&rnum=1&hl=en#a09d926570b69565

I created the above listed post and thanks to Kevin Nathans and Alvins
help , they gave me several ideas on getting my computer to access the
LAN and the internet. But never quite got there.

I am creating this new thread because I fear that if I post to that
thread no one would see it.

What I have done since my last post is :
set suse 9.3 linux to DHCP and directly hooked the computer into the
cable modem, this way I could try see if it was a problem with the
router or not. but sadly when I typed in
sudo /sbin/rcnetwork restart
it failed to get a new IP address

Here is a piece of information that wasn't posted before. (in the
previous thread) that may be of interest.

When the lightning took out the cable modem and the router, I obviously
had to replace them. When I first booted into windows xp I had to go to
the control panel into the network connections and tell windows xp to
"repair this connection", before I had it repair the connection I had no
net access.. afterwards I did. I made no changes in terms of ip address
or dns entry or gateway. I think that the same needs to be done in
linux. I just have no clue as to what I would need to do to get it done.

Any thoughts , suggestions, ideas?
I do appreciate any help
Andrew

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