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I got the windoze piece of my home network set up all perfect, it can get on the internet (otherwise how would i be here ) but i can't connect on the linux box. A few things, when look in suse plugger and look at my ethernet card it says that my card is available but not configured, but the configure button is grayed out next to it (so it's un clickable). Also i think i may have made some dopey settings on my windows box in the home network, but don't know how to nuke the settings for the homenetwork and start fresh. So what should i do???

You need to be logged in as root to make changes to network hardware.

I did. I'm not thaaat stupid. What ever changes i make have no effect. It detected the ip adress when i ran the setup wizzard on the router through my other box but it still won't get on the net.

Strange. Alas, I don't use SuSE so I don't know its tools.

However, when you're logged in as root, try this command in the terminal: and then type in to see what settings it's using. Also, check
to see if your packets have a default route goin' on.

Try typing "ifconfig eth0 up netmask 255.255.255.0 [desired ip address]" into the console as root, then type "route add default gw [ip of router or ICS winbox]" as root. When you are satisfied, put the two commands onto the end of your rc.local (I think it is in /etc/rc.d/rc.local- debian is weird and scripts set up in non-standard way) Sorry, never used SuSE, can't help you on GUI config tools.

The specific IP information should be in the ifcfg-ethn, but I don't know where SuSE puts it. Fedora/Redhat puts it in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default

I'll report back when it's working.

phongn wrote:The specific IP information should be in the ifcfg-ethn, but I don't know where SuSE puts it. Fedora/Redhat puts it in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default

You can use "locate" to find it.