robert jorgenson wrote: > > okay i am running SuSE 7.2(FINALLY thanx gontran and EBo) and so far all > i have done is ran yast2 and setup the NIC and i ran the hostname/dns > utility and checked the box that said use dhcp to set the hostname. And > i tried pinging stuff starting with this computer which it is hooked up > to on a network and it worked...the i tried pinging the gateway that > qwesy gave us and that worked...but i cant get outside to the internet. > If anyone knows whats goin on and can help i would appreciate it MUCHO! > thanx > ----- type ifconfig it should list something like... eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:43:F9:07 inet addr:24.221.62.42 Bcast:24.221.62.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:410999 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:344092 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:16749 RX bytes:327112700 (311.9 Mb) TX bytes:55661176 (53.0 Mb) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 EtherTalk Phase 2 addr:0/0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:103354 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:103354 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 RX bytes:48758734 (46.4 Mb) TX bytes:48758734 (46.4 Mb) does eth0 show up? have an address? then cat /etc/sysconfig/network it should look something like this... NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME="hostname.isp.tld" GATEWAY=24.221.62.41 GATEWAYDEV=eth0 You need to have a gateway address and gateway device listed in this file so - if you are really a dhcpcd (or pump) client, these should be filled out automatically when you obtain an ip address. If you are using a Cisco 675/678 DSL modem using Qwest as ISP, then you would probably want to configure manually and forget about DHCP altogether... Qwest would normally configure the lan settings of a Cisco 675/678 with an ip address of 10.0.0.1 so you could simply change your settings as follows (manually configured) ip address 10.0.0.2 subnet mask 255.255.255.0 gateway address 10.0.0.1 gateway device eth0 /etc/resolv.conf (for phoenix area - Qwest ISP only) nameserver 206.80.192.1 nameserver 204.147.80.5 domain qwest.net Craig