A couple of additional things to consider... 1. If you are connecting straight to the cable mode use ethernet not USB. 2. YaST is your friend. Go into the YaST Control Center and into Network Devices and make sure your network card is listed and setup correctly. 3. Are you using wireless? If so that's another can of worms. Get things working in a wired environment first. Jack - typing this on a system running SuSE 10.0 via a Comcast Cable Modem. (In other words don't despair it's doable.) On Wednesday 16 August 2006 12:12 pm, Josh Trutwin wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:48:46 -0500 (CDT) > > Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Tipsy-in_Chicago Tipsy wrote: > > > I need some help here. I am not sure if SUSE rocks.........what > > > i mean to say is that, I installed SUSE 10.0 on my Dell XPS 400 > > > machine..and i have no clue how to enable internet on it. I am > > > using comcast cable. > > > > > > I am a linux newbie...detailed info is much appreciated. > > Welcome - hope we can help. There are a number of things that > could be going wrong so first thing to do is narrow down the > problem. > > Couple questions: > > 1.) Are you connecting your computer directly to the cable modem or > to another router in between? > > 2.) Do you have another PC/Laptop running windows that connects ok > to the internet through your cable modem? > > 3.) Log in as root and send the results of the following commands: > > ifconfig -a > > lspci -vv (just find the block(s) that have "Ethernet controller" > and send those) > > lsmod > > The first will list your network interfaces, the second your PCI > devices, the third your loaded kernel modules. > > Thanks, > > Jsoh > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com http://www.jacku.com