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worker201:
Okay, so I have this old laptop that I just installed SuSe8.2 on, works great so far.  I also have this Linksys ethernet PCMCIA card that is fully supported under Linux and SuSe.  So I put the card in the notebook and set everything up with Yast2, and it seems okay.

Now, I look at my WinXP machine at work and copy its static IP address, as well as the subnet mask, the DNS numbers, and the gateway.  I then input those numbers into Yast2.  The I unplugged the network cable from my work machine and stuck it in the laptop and Voila...

nothing.

Can't use Konqueror to navigate to simple websites.

So what am I doing wrong?  Nothing seems obviously foul about this situation.  Not that I'm blaming Linux; the laptop would have melted if I tried that with the Win98 it had before.  I'm just a little disappointed, and I was hoping that someone around here would steer me in the right direction.  Thanks in advance.

flap:
Can you ping hostnames/ip addresses? Is the network connection definitely up (run ifconfig)?

worker201:

quote:Originally posted by flap:
Can you ping hostnames/ip addresses? Is the network connection definitely up (run ifconfig)?
--- End quote ---


Uhm, what?  As a person who has been running Windows pretty much exclusively for 10 years, I have no idea what you are talking about.  I haven't got any clue about how to ping with Linux, and I'm not sure how to run anything besides OpenOffice.  If you could be so kind and expand on that, I would appreciate it.

flap:
Sorry.

Type "ifconfig" at a command line (you may need to do that as root) and see if "eth0" is listed as one of the active network interfaces.

To ping just type
ping <ip address/hostname>

[ September 16, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]

Master of Reality:
open up konsole.. and "ping -c2 <IP address>"
hmm... also...erm...hmmm...uhhh....OHH! I KNOW!!
Look on your work computers browser (if its internet explorer then keep reading) and go to tools (i think) > internet options
and then erm... connection tab... then i think it will say proxy settings somewhere. CHeck that and see if it has a proxy server its connecting to.


As you can tell... i dont use windows very often.

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