SUSE 10.3 eth; Network is unreachable

Hello to All, and hope this is not answered 5,000 times and I am # 5001?!!

I am dual booting XP PRO SP3 with all hardware connect working great from new install (Bye, Bye Vista).
On a Dell M1330, recently bought new.

Installed SUSE 10.3 and with correct IP, Gateway, etc. I cannot telnet or ping. Receive error "Network is unreachable"

I may be confusing the "hostname". I am using the machine name under windows as the hostname.

On the network at work I am "ABCDE-AB23CDEFF" on "workgroup"

Windows sees the broadcomm card as Broadcom NetLink Fast Ethernet
And SUSE sees it as...
Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM 5906M PCI Express (rev 02)

The only problems are the SUSE view of Hardware Ethernet card and my choice of Hostname.
I have configured this work network on over 20 pc's and laptops in the last years and have quadruple checked the subnet, IP, etc.

Bottom Line:.....
I have an ethernet network interface configuration issue.

Does anyone have any insight or more questions for me?

Thanks for your upcoming help,
Chetanji

 

Doesn't it connect automatically?
Mine does in nearly every distro I've tried.
What did you name your machine?
Go to a terminal it should say:
yourusername @ computername

 

Thanks, Thomas,
What you say is correct and this is my userID/workstation ID.
When I boot up the laptop with my workstation cat5 cable plugged in 'hot',
SUSE 10.3 always gives me "Network is unreachable."

I have the correct manual configurtion (DHCP is disabled on this network.)

It must be the incorrect card name in the Dell M1330 (Broadcom NetLink Fast Ethernet) or wrong host name.

Perhaps, my mistake was allowing SUSE during install (while not connected to network) to assign its own choice of name.
I changed the hostname to the correct workstation name, (under Yast in Network card config.) which does work for any other laptop configured by me under windows OS. Even worked for Fedora Core 7 wireless a year ago.(although it took a week to configure the NetGear Card!).

I hope this answers some questions of this config problem.

Thanks,
Chetanji

 

Hmm, why opensuse?
Its a great distro, but other distros(Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) are more user friendly(Mint) or have more support(Ubuntu).
You probably shouldn't have allowed opensuse to choose its own either.
EDIT: Btw, its opensuse, not suse)

 

To be perfectly honest,
I tried to install Fedora Core 9 two weeks ago and it immediatly had problems with NVidea GeoForce Vid card. Plus other essential laptop devices upon install were not there.
Imagine landing the first manned spacecraft on Mars only to find you have no information on your Oxygen and Water reserve. You are pretty sure it will be worked out!!??

I looked on this site and googled up the linux on laptops and for my laptop the SUSE web page looked inviting and quite easy. So that was the choice.

I have heard a lot of rumblings of Ubuntu lately on the web and from people around me as well.

But, really, for a laptop, don't we have to go the extra mile, installing Linux, to finally, with a little work, find ourselves in the promised land of bits and flying bytes?

What ever it takes I need to get a version of Linux up and working as quick as possible for the project at work.

Thanks again Thomas for your input.

To reiterate, my username at workstation, should be the correct hostname, for the workstation, Right?

This is the only thing not making sense, except for the possibility of the network ethernet card.

Chetanji

 

It should, but Im not a network guru.
I do recommend trying Ubuntu or Mint though.

 

Just walked over to the Airconditioned Network Server Control Room and a friend gave me a Ubuntu 8.04 server edition installation disk.

One question comes to mind at this moment, did not when the disk was handed to me; will this have a GUI to run a basic desktop?

I have a funny feeling this is the real deal, multi-possibility server combo pack. Lean, mean and quick to install.

I may just delete openSUSE and reinstall it, instead. This time putting in all the correct information at install time.

That may be all this Linux needs to get Ethernet working.

Otherwise I probably need the Desktop Ubuntu.
I am told not to use VmWare with Desktop, as IPC is a problem with VmWare in the Desktop but safe in Server.

Chetanji

 

It should work in Ubuntu Desktop Edition.
The server edtion is what it is, its meant for servers, and doesn't have a GUI.

 

Last night I reinstalled Mandriva to a desktop connected via ethernet. This was a dual-boot with Ubuntu which was (and is still) working perfectly. I could not connect to the Internet will Mandriva and was baffled, since I've used the distro in the past with no issues other than with sound. Finally, I noticed an error message saying I had to reinstall Lisa Daemon. I searched for it and once found, just followed the on-screen instructions and all went well. Within a minute or two all was well again and I was connected to the Net.

Am not quite sure what caused my situation with Mandriva, but what you decribe with Suse sounds exactly like what happened to my machine, for whatever that may (or not) be worth to you. Frankly, I don't even know if Lisa Daemon is something found in Suse.