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24-Dec-2005, 05:16 PM #1
Exclamation No Internet on Linux??
Hi everyone.
Firstly Merry Xmas!
Secondly.. PLEASE HELP!!
I have just installed SuSE Linux 10.0 today, all has installed fine but I cant seem to get the internet to work.
I have NTL Broadband through a modem and ethernet connection, obviously works fine with XP still, but I cant get it to work with Linux.
I am a complete novice with Linux but the only thing I can think of is that the 'Realtek RTL8139 Fast ethernet' driver has not been installed properly as that was mentioned during installation.
I have found a couple of sites referring to this driver on linux, but how am I supposed to install a driver on linux???
I am really stuck here guys, any help at all is GREATLY APRIACIATED!!
Thanks in Advance.
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24-Dec-2005, 06:48 PM #2
Try installing the driver. The procedure for this is different for every driver. Just look for the readme in the driver directory. That's all I can tell you. Good luck, installing linux drivers (or just about anything else in Linux) is a big pain in the ***...
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24-Dec-2005, 06:53 PM #3
From a shell window, as root, type in the command ifconfig and post the results here.

Then, from a shell window, as root, type in the command lspci and post the results here.

These two will tell explicitly what the state of your network is and what hardware the system sees connected to it.
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24-Dec-2005, 06:53 PM #4
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Originally Posted by c_geek
Try installing the driver. The procedure for this is different for every driver. Just look for the readme in the driver directory. That's all I can tell you. Good luck, installing linux drivers (or just about anything else in Linux) is a big pain in the ***...
Installing drivers, debugging drivers, and just generally debugging installations is far easier in Linux than in Windows.
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25-Dec-2005, 12:28 PM #5
Realtek 8139 doesn't need a driver from a Linux distro, not one as recent as Suse unless it got a 2.4 kernel or older.

I would use Yast to configure it to use DHCP.

click K Menu/system/Yast (Control Centre)/ supply p/d/ Network device/Network card and following the instruction.

If you have to do it in a Bash shell then type these

ifconfig eth0
dhcpcd eth0

to see if it kicks start it

Last edited by saikee : 25-Dec-2005 01:19 PM.
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26-Dec-2005, 12:30 PM #6
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Originally Posted by saikee
Realtek 8139 doesn't need a driver from a Linux distro, not one as recent as Suse unless it got a 2.4 kernel or older.
Driver has to come from someplace; where, if not from the distro?
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26-Dec-2005, 01:31 PM #7
jiml8,

I mean no need to outsource as a distro bound to have the essential generic drivers packaged.

I never met a request for installing a driver for Realtek 8139. That includes a new Suse 9.1 I did today.
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