[NBLUG/talk] New Linux user needs help with SUSE 9.2 please

Walter Hansen gandalf at sonic.net
Thu Dec 30 11:25:21 PST 2004


I hope I'm not overstepping. I'm forwarding this to nblug talk as I know
there are some folks there using suse 9.2 and I'm not. Please know that
Rob is not subscribed to nblug talk so you'll have to email him. It sounds
like it's something specific to this OS.


> Hi Walter, thanks for the quick reply.  I bought a new Toshiba S329 laptop
> about two weeks ago and also bought a suse linux 9.2 set of software to
> install on it.  I also got a linksys router to plug into my dsl line.
> Busy shopping day!
> Before I installed the Linux I set up the router and had no trouble
> connecting through Windows on the laptop.  When I was installing Linux
> (yesterday) I was way over my head when trying to configure the internet
> connection!  I don't even seem to know the basic terms! Ack. At this point
> the linux boots up okay (though it seems to take a long long time) but I
> don't know if I'm supposed to be configuring dsl or the network card or
> what, much less how.  There's a program called YaST that's trying hard to
> be helpful, but I don't know what to do.
> What do you think?
> Thanks
> Rob
>
>
> lter Hansen <gandalf at sonic.net> wrote:
> That's pretty broad, but I may be able to help. Can you narrow it down a
> bit? Network card? Modem? I'd also suggest the local linux talk group.
> There are probably some folks running suse there. I'm running Red Hat and
> Mandrake at the moment. Network configuration is in /etc/sysconfig on the
> systems I've worked on. I've never configured a modem under linux, but I
> seem to remember it being a pretty easy process.
>
> http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
>
> If you let me know how you're trying to connect to the internet, I'll try
> to help.
>
>>
>> Hi, I just installed suse linux 9.2 on our new laptop, but I can't
>> figure
>> out how to get hooked up to the internet. Is there anybody out there who
>> can help me???
>> thanks
>> Rob
>>
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