Help with linux?

Question

Hi linux users, i am having a bit of a problem with my SuSE linux 9.2.
I have a wireless card on my laptop and the ipw-firmware installed on linux. Wireless used to work perfectly without any problem. It used to detect the wireless networks and connect to the open network at university and i was able to use the internet. Now for some reason, i still do get the IP address by DHCP but internet doesn't work and i cannot ping even the broadcast address. I tried local area network with wired cat5 cable connecting 2 laptops, set the IP manually or automatically by DHCP, i am able to ping but i can't access the web. I have apache server on linux and connected with windows laptop. I can ping from windows to linux but can't access the apache using 192.168.0.1/htdocs/myproject

Please guide me where i am going wrong.

Thanks

Answer 1

There are other issues - could be the gateway that is being pulled. Check your network settings be sure the IP, subnet, and gateway are correct on your Linux network. If that is correct go check the firewall settings. You may have blocked port 80 by accident (you can just disable the firewall and see what happens).

Answer 2

Sounds like you have DNS resolving problem. Check your DNS setting under Network settings in Yast, or whatever Suse uses. You can manually modify the /etc/resolv.conf too. This seems dosen't seem to coralate with the apache issue, but check it after you get DNS setup right. If you are trying to use Bind, you have a more complex problem.