cant ping my router/or access the internet

pengu · Newbie Joined: May 21, 2006 Posts: 9

HI there, i am very new to linux. I have just installed SuSe10 open on my machine(an AMD 64) which is running a ASUS A8V-E delux. It has a wireless card installed, which works fine on the windows partition, and also an ethernet card, which also works fine on the windos OS. The ethernet card is called Marvell Yukon 88EE8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller and the wireless is ASUS 802.11b/g Wireless LAN card.

I am connecting to the internet with a Wanadoo wireless router. Because i couldnt configure the wireless to work on the linux, i though that i would have more success with just the straightforward cable. But that doesnt work either...

Now i may have changed settings etc...which have disrupteed the defaults of susie...can anyone help me sort this mess out and get me up and running on the net?

In bash, when i run the command

ifconfig -a

the suse box sees the eth0 controller but when i try to ping the router on 192.168.1.1 it said that the network is unreachable.

Other things i have tried are the following:
/etc/init.d/network restart nothing happens
I have done a lot of reading, but for a newbie like myself, i guess i need a more guidance...any takers?

rijelkentaurus · Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject:

Post the entire output of ifconfig -a.

Does the router give out DHCP or are you using static IP addresses? Doesn't really sound like DHCP, SUSE should pick up an address if that's the case.

Also, make certain the router has the wired LAN turned on, sometimes it's possible to use wireless or wired, and turn the other one off. There's the chance that your router is not operating on the wired ports.

Does the wired NIC work under WIndows, or have you only used wireless there? There may be a chance that the NIC is bad...I've seen new NICs that were crap out of the box.

You can try to take eth0 down and then bring it back up. As root:

ifdown eth0
ifup eth0

That will reset things and clear out any cache.

Hang in there! We're always ready to help out our neighbors! Smile

pengu · Newbie Joined: May 21, 2006 Posts: 9

ok i try, the NIC is ok, works fine with wireless and wired on windows....

i will take a print out of all the relevant things ok....bear with me as i will need to reboot etc...

thanks for offering to help ok, it is really appreciated...hopefully i will learn something, and maybe to help others in the future too Smile

pengu · Newbie Joined: May 21, 2006 Posts: 9

ok i am back, it was very difficult to get the info to my windows machine as the linux didnt initially see the usb key.

ok i will print the following now for you:

koen · Beginner Joined: Sep 12, 2005 Posts: 224 Location: Belgium

your NIC (eth0) isn't getting an IP address by dhcp, and you need an IP address to ping your router or get on the internet.

This could be caused by the fact that you're switching between 2 machines.
the cure is, with your linix machine connected to the router,

pengu · Newbie Joined: May 21, 2006 Posts: 9

ok i will try that ok,

i will report back for you ok,

also i will check out the link to the thread too, thanks

pengu · Newbie Joined: May 21, 2006 Posts: 9

i just cannot to get it working Sad

i restarted the router first then the pc, didnt work

i tried setting the ip address manually with :
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1

the ping 192.168.1.1

still said network unreachable

the dchp option in network services wont let me start it...

help please i am lost

ffreeloader · Master Joined: Aug 10, 2005 Posts: 572

pengu · Newbie Joined: May 21, 2006 Posts: 9

Ok thanks will try that, just the interesting thing is that on my windows box the gateway ip is 192.169.1.1 and the ip address is 192.168.0.1 can you explain that to me please

Sorry if these are silly questions, but i wanted to get it sorted out in my own mind. I will doubkle check as it may be human error(probably) on my side

thanks for all the usefull help it is appreciated.

I am also going to try to turn off the firewall completely too

ffreeloader · Master Joined: Aug 10, 2005 Posts: 572

ffreeloader · Master Joined: Aug 10, 2005 Posts: 572

On second thought.

Are you behind a home router? Or, are you connected directly to the internet? I should have asked that first as your Windows machine is not picking up a private IP address as it's gateway.

Your problem could be, if you're not behind a home router such as a linksys or d-link, that SuSe doesn't have the correct drivers for your NIC and that's why you're not getting an IP address from dhcp.

pengu · Newbie Joined: May 21, 2006 Posts: 9

Sorry ffreeloader, i accidently typed 192.169.1.1
It should be 192.168.1.1

Sorry not in Hawaii, though i really wish that i was!

The router that I am using is on from my ISP it is not a branded router such as netgear unfortunately.

I will try your earlier suggestion, but i will try the firewall thing too.

Hopefully I will get this issue resolved!

thanks for the help

pengu · Newbie Joined: May 21, 2006 Posts: 9

Hi there,

I tried disabling my firewall....didnt work

i tried setting with ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.15 my ip address
it came up with broadcasting on 192.168.1.255

when i ping at least it tries to ping now, but noting happens and all packets are lost or timed out

I really not sure what to do at this stage? Sad

pengu · Newbie Joined: May 21, 2006 Posts: 9

I finally managed to get the problem sorted out.

not quite sure how i resolved it actually. Maybe the network card ip was set up wrongly on the nic. I had to assign an ip address using

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10

then set up the gateway manually too using

route add default gw 192.168.1.1

and it seemed to work....just frightened that as soon as i log off all these setting will be lost

thanks for your patience folks

koen · Beginner Joined: Sep 12, 2005 Posts: 224 Location: Belgium

brynnax · Newbie Joined: Jun 23, 2009 Posts: 1

How to connect a wireless router to a cable modem?
I have a desktop for the house. My daughter has purchased a Dell Ispiron 1501 laptop. We bought a Netgear Wireless-G Router (WGR614) which came w/ no instructions. My question is this: the router came w/ an instillation cd & i need to know do i load the cd to my desktop or to the laptop OR to both of them?
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tripwire45 · Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:45 pm Post subject:

Greetings. Smile

Not sure if this applies to a Linux-oriented forum or not, but I did find a video tutorial on YouTube that might help:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kawBR2YtjmA

You don't say how you connect to the Internet, but I assume you have a DSL or cable modem and then have your PC hooked into it. You'll probably need to take the cable that comes out of your modem and plug it into the WAN or Input port of the Linksys device. Then you can connect your PC to one of the LAN ports on the Linksys device so you'll be connected to both the Internet and the LAN/WLAN your creating.

You can put the installation CD in your PC once connected and then set up the wireless side of the network so the laptop can also connect. You might also want to consult the product documentation at Netgear:

http://www.netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGateways/WirelessGRouters/WGR614.aspx

Hope this helps. Smile

-Trip
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