SuSE 9.0 Personal internet connection problem

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 18:31 -0700, Dale McGarry wrote:
> Sorry about the HTML format.
> 
> Here is what I see when I ran ifconfig:
> 
> Link encap: Local Loopback
> Inet addr: 127.0.00.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
> Inet6addr: ::1/128 Scope: Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436  Metric:1
> RX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> Collisions:0 txqueue:0
> RX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb)    TX bytes:2608 (205Kb)
> 
> However, when I ran cat/etc/resolv.conf this what was displayed:
> bash: cat/etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory 
> 
> No router, cable goes into external modem (Scientific Atlanta DPC 2100) and
> runs to PC and, yes I have to power down the modem when I want to switch
> computers.
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OK - you don't have any ethernet interface active...

try (as root)

ifup eth0

and see what happens (try running 'ifconfig' command again to see if
interface activates and gets an ip address)

It's likely that YAST has a configuration panel to the network adaptors
and can turn it on as well...I don't know SuSE well.

Craig