[olug] Open Suse 10.0

[Bill Brush]

I'm going to agree with Noel that you need to verify your connection
to the net first and foremost.  That sounds like a basic connection or
name resolution error.

Here are some basic commands that will help:

ifconfig - Will show you the configuration information for your
network interfaces.  Eth0 is normally the one you have to worry about.
(assuming you don't have multiple cards.  Make sure there is an
address.  If it only lists "lo" as an interface then your card isn't
configured and activated correctly.

route - Will show you the routing table.  The important one is the one
listed as "default".  Make a note of thate address or dns name.

ping - If the card is listed correctly in ifconfig then execute the
command <ping -c5 {default route address}>.  This will send 5 packets
to the default route address and listen for a reply.  After it's done
it should come back and tell you what the statistics are.  For your
default route you should have 0% packet loss.

If none of these give any positive resutls you can do <ethtool eth0>
to see if the card has an active connection.  It should have a "Link
detected=yes" near the bottom of the output if it does.

If all of the preceding give positive output then it might be a name
resolution issue.  Do the command <nslookup www.google.com> and see if
it gives you an address.  If it says "can't find" or some such
negative command, then your name resolution isn't working.

Good luck.  I've really been finding Suse to be a nice desktop.

Bill

On 12/1/05, ADAM BAXTER <adambaxteromaha at msn.com> wrote:
> Please help.  I'm new to Linux and I'm having problems with my install of Open Suse 10.0.  I believe one of my problems is I need to run the On-line update but everytime I try I get a warning error of:
>
>  Cannot fetch remote server list.  Only user-defined patch sources will available.
>
> If anyone can tell me what I need to do I would appreciate it.
>