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[tommohawk]

I have been playing with Linux on and off for years but never really got anywhere because I never had any real problems with hardware.

Now I have finally managed to get my shiny new laptop (AMD Turion64, HP Pavillion dv8000, ATIXpress200M) to run a distro properly!!

It has been a struggle, I have installed and uninstalled several distros but none of them seemed to work properly. Mostly it was graphics related issues but with Suse, everything is perfect, even the 1280x800 resolution).

The only issue I have now is that I have no internet connectivity - not one bit. The drivers seem to be installed for the ethernet card and the data light even blinks occassionally but no trafic?! And then there's the wifi... Broadcom chipset, won't even entertain it. There is a button on the laptop to turn it on and off and that is also dead.

Any suggestions guys?

[shifty_ben]

My first guess it that it may be ACPI causing the issue. Post the output from dmesg and we'll see if we can figure it out
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[tommohawk]

I have posted the output below. I have to use the boot options pci-noacpi and acpi=force else it won't boot. Maybe there is something I am missing. Any advice would be gratefully receieved.

Thanks,


Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda4 vga=0x317 selinux=0 acpi=force resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent pci=noacpi)
Linux version 2.6.13-15-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000037ea0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037ea0000 - 0000000037eac000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037eac000 - 0000000037f00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037f00000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x00000000000f7c50
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0000000037ea481b
ACPI: FADT (v001 HP Piranha 0x06040000 ATI 0x000f4240) @ 0x0000000037eabe27
ACPI: SSDT (v001 PTLTD POWERNOW 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x0000000037eabe9b
ACPI: MADT (v001 PTLTD APIC 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0000000037eabf6a
ACPI: MCFG (v001 PTLTD MCFG 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0000000037eabfc4
ACPI: DSDT (v001 HP 309B 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x0000000000000000
On node 0 totalpages: 228927
DMA zone: 3999 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 224928 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
ATI board detected. Disabling timer pin 1.
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: <6>Product ID: <6>APIC at: 0xFEE00000
I/O APIC #1 Version 33 at 0xFEC00000.
Setting APIC routing to flat
Processors: 1
Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000)
Checking aperture...
CPU 0: aperture @ c29a000000 size 32 MB
Aperture from northbridge cpu 0 too small (32 MB)
No AGP bridge found
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda4 vga=0x317 selinux=0 acpi=force resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent pci=noacpi
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 131072 bytes)
time.c: Using 3.579545 MHz PM timer.
time.c: Detected 1790.879 MHz processor.
time.c: Using PIT/TSC based timekeeping.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Memory: 894712k/916096k available (2290k kernel code, 20628k reserved, 825k data, 176k init)
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3588.98 BogoMIPS (lpj=7177979)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
CPU: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-32 stepping 02
checking if image is initramfs... it is
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
not found!
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0e80 (from 0c80)
Using IO-APIC 1
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Detected 12.436 MHz APIC timer.
testing NMI watchdog ... OK.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050408
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 26)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:14.1
Boot video device is 0000:01:05.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:13.0[A] -> IRQ 161
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:13.1[A] -> IRQ 161
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:13.2[A] -> IRQ 161
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:14.1[A] -> IRQ 145
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:14.5[B] -> IRQ 153
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:14.6[B] -> IRQ 153
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:01:05.0[A] -> IRQ 153
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:06:02.0[A] -> IRQ 5
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:06:04.0[A] -> IRQ 0
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:06:04.2[C] -> IRQ 0
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:06:04.3[B] -> IRQ 0
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:06:04.4[A] -> IRQ 0
PCI: using PPB 0000:00:14.4[C] to get irq 17
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:06:06.0[C] -> IRQ 153
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:04.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:04.0
TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@vger.kernel.org cc hadi@cyberus.ca)
PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: 9000-9fff
MEM window: b0100000-b01fffff
PREFETCH window: c0000000-cfffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:04.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:06:04.0
IO window: 00002000-00002fff
IO window: 00003000-00003fff
PREFETCH window: 40000000-41ffffff
MEM window: 42000000-43ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
IO window: a000-afff
MEM window: b0200000-b02fffff
PREFETCH window: 40000000-41ffffff
PCI: 0000:00:04.0 has unsupported PM cap regs version (3)
PCI: Device 0000:00:04.0 not available because of resource collisions
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:06:04.0[A] -> IRQ 0
IA32 emulation $Id: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1143731647.996:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
PCI: 0000:00:04.0 has unsupported PM cap regs version (3)
PCI: Device 0000:00:04.0 not available because of resource collisions
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xffffc20000080000, using 6144k, total 262144k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=169
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 76011 bytes,<6>...found (1024x768, 12703 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 127x44
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 128000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: PC Speaker
md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 3.38
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
ACPI wakeup devices:
LID KBC0 MSE0 ELAN
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
ATIIXP: chipset revision 0
ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8410-0x8417, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8418-0x841f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: FUJITSU MHV2080AH, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 > hda4
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x1a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio4
hdc: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4082N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI-0400: *** Warning: Invalid active threshold [0]
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (0 C)
Attempting manual resume
swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
ReiserFS: hda4: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda4: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda4: journal params: device hda4, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda4: checking transaction log (hda4)
ReiserFS: hda4: Using r5 hash to sort names
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Adding 682720k swap on /dev/hda6. Priority:-1 extents:1
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
NTFS driver 2.1.23 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
NTFS volume version 3.1.
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device ffffffff803cf000(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (3578 buckets, 28624 max) - 304 bytes per conntrack
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 161, io mem 0xb0000000
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 161, io mem 0xb0001000
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 161, io mem 0xb0002000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: $Rev: 1299 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:06:04.2[C] -> IRQ 0
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
ohci1394: probe of 0000:06:04.2 failed with error -12
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:06:04.0[A] -> IRQ 0
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:06:04.0 [103c:309b]
Yenta: no PCI IRQ, CardBus support disabled for this socket.
Yenta: check your BIOS CardBus, BIOS IRQ or ACPI settings.
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0078, PCI irq 0
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0xa000 - 0xafff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xb0200000 - 0xb02fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x40000000 - 0x41ffffff
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xffffc200009d6400, 00:0f:b0:bb:0b:79, IRQ 153
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [062a:0000] on usb-0000:00:13.0-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
eth0: link down
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
NET: Registered protocol family 17
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: CPU0 not a capable Intel processor
microcode: No new microcode data for CPU0
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver v1.14 unregistered
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.50.3)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x4 (1450 mV)
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x16 (1000 mV)
cpu_init done, current fid 0xa, vid 0x2
powernow-k8: ph2 null fid transition 0xa
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

[shifty_ben]

OK first thing, which Im sure you've noticed is there is a lot of APIC errors. Secondly your PCMCIA slots have been disabled because of an IRQ issue. As far as I can see your network card has been detected without error. The issue with your power button is likely to be ACPI related.
First we'll try and deal with the network card, then we'll take a looka t the other bits and bobs.
As root run

ifconfig

from a console, you should see information for a device eth0. If not then try ifconfig eth0
if you still see nothing this partially explains the lack of connectivity.
next try pinging 127.0.0.1 although this may ping the loopback device, so you may see a reply from that instead of the net device.

(Incidentally most things I say will be from the console, I have not used SuSe much, so its easier for me to explain in this way)

next try pinging your router (I doubt this will work, but always worth a try)
do you use static IPs or DHCP?

If your router has a DHCP server in it, and you are currently usign a static address then try running

dhcpcd eth0

if you get a command not found then it may be you have pump instead of dhcpcd

pump eth0


then try pinging the router, and perhaps google if that works.
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There is now a driver for the Broadcom wireless chipset, but it has not made it into the kernel yet. You can get it from http://bcm43xx.berlios.de
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[jhooks]

I have a dv8025 and I find the ACPI BIOS often gets a little fubar'd. I will share with you what I have found. At the very least I would suggest you edit your '/boot/grub/menu.lst' and add 'acpi=noirq' as a kernel option, i.e. so it looks a little like :

[tommohawk]

Right then - we move forward! Jhooks - thanks for the advice on the bootloader edit - it worked.

Now, the network.... I tried exactly what shifty-ben said and when I type ifconfig, I get a host of information which shows me the ipaddress of the laptop and everything looks normal. When I ping the router it takes an age to respond but does respond eventually.

I ran firefox and the novell homepage (havent changed it yet) started to load but then simply stopped.

I then tried to log in to my router and it said that the connection was refused. Clearly, there is connectivity there but they just don't want to speak. I can't find anything wrong with the router settings when I log in under windoze but I have set up a static address and I will now try to get it talking to Linux again.

This is a real pain in t'arse because I keep having to reboot to access this forum in xp.

Any other ideas??

Other thing, got the advice on the broadcom driver issue but where do I start... I downloaded the latest snapshot file as detailed above and on http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ as suggested by Nelz but now what.

Sorry for being a bit dim but like I said, never had problems before so please treat me as a noob.

Thanks,
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[tommohawk]

More info - I am now really confused. If I boot the system and as soon as KDE comes up I click the firefox icon then the novell home page loads perfectly. If I try to click on a link it just sits there and does nothing as before.

If I wait 30 seconds before clicking on firefox after KDE loads then I can't even get the novell homepage.

Confused........
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[shifty_ben]

Interesting, sounds like something KDE is doing thats causing the problem, I found that on my Thinkpad KDE accessed the soundcard and caused an IRQ conflict, but as the device is still seen I don't think its that.
if you log into a console rather than going into KDE how do you fair?
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[tommohawk]

Haven't tried it. Do you mean boot into a console? I will give it a go and see what happens. I suppose all I will be able to do is ping sites though? I will post an updated output from dmesg if you think it might help.
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[shifty_ben]

If you have links, links2 or lynx installed you will be able to browse (assumin connection is working)
The xorg log could be useful as KDE seems to be the troublemaker though I doubt it will show anything useful, still worth a look
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[tommohawk]

I am still getting nowhere here and I am becoming increasingly frustrated. The same thing happens when I log in as root, firefox starts, opens the home page then (if I am quick enough) I can click on a random link and it will open that page then will go no further.

I have cheked all the settings and I think they look ok but to be honest I don't know. They look the same as I would set them up in windows and I have even tried turning the fiewalll off and still the same thing happens.

You may have to give me more explicit guidance, where is the output for xorg? How do I get it?

When I log in to a console only, I still get the same responses from the ping, ie: nothing. It correctly states the IP address that DHCP has assigned so it is obviously talking to the router but will not respond to pings.

I have re-checked the router set up and it looks fine. I think I will have to get my other laptop out and log into the router while suse is running on the problem laptop.

Incidentally, if I boot the machine with the Knoppix Live CD then everything works as it should but if I use the suse live CD then it doesn't. On previous installs with Mandriva 2005 and 2006, I had the same problem as I am having now.

Please help!
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[shifty_ben]

OK lets try and see whether it is something your router is 'saying' I don't know whether you have Ethereal installed or not, but if you don't it may be worth installing it, even if you only remove it after you are done.
Run that as soon as you get into the Desktop environment, set it to capture on device eth0 and then open firefox, try and use firefox until it stops working (a few seconds realistically)
Interesting that from a console you get nothing, although it may just be that SuSe starts something alongside the Desktop that you need.
If knoppix works then its possible that it is a driver issue, can you post the output of

lsmod

and

lspci

please?
Hopefully we'll figure it out soon enough.
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[tommohawk]

Outputs as requested.

I have also pasted the output from ifconfig so you can see that it does obtain an IP address from the router via DHCP. Also, I used my other laptop to log into the router and verified that the router can see the linux PC and it can!! So I still don't understand what is happening.

I opened a console session from the logon screen just to double check but there was still no responses to any ping commands to the router. When I tried to ping the linux laptop from the windows laptop it just kept dropping the packets.


LSMOD

Module Size Used by
af_packet 25356 2
nls_iso8859_1 5760 0
nls_cp437 7424 0
vfat 15872 0
fat 58032 1 vfat
ipt_pkttype 2176 1
subfs 9600 1
ipt_LOG 8064 7
ipt_limit 2944 7
cpufreq_ondemand 8108 1
cpufreq_userspace 5828 0
cpufreq_powersave 2304 0
powernow_k8 11792 0
freq_table 5512 1 powernow_k8
button 8736 0
sg 42544 0
snd_pcm_oss 70432 0
snd_mixer_oss 22144 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq 68824 0
sd_mod 20760 0
snd_seq_device 11024 1 snd_seq
battery 12296 0
ac 6664 0
edd 12448 0
joydev 12288 0
ip6t_REJECT 6528 3
ipt_REJECT 6656 3
ipt_state 2432 12
usbhid 49696 0
usb_storage 85952 0
scsi_mod 161976 3 sg,sd_mod,usb_storage
pcmcia 45972 0
firmware_class 12416 1 pcmcia
iptable_mangle 3584 0
iptable_nat 28120 0
yenta_socket 27276 1
rsrc_nonstatic 14720 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 47260 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
iptable_filter 3712 1
8139too 30848 0
mii 6784 1 8139too
ip6table_mangle 2944 0
ohci1394 36684 0
ieee1394 118648 1 ohci1394
snd_atiixp 24864 1
snd_ac97_codec 117060 1 snd_atiixp
snd_ac97_bus 3328 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 117260 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 29320 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 77600 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 11808 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 13200 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm
ip_conntrack 51572 2 ipt_state,iptable_nat
ip_tables 22528 8 ipt_pkttype,ipt_LOG,ipt_limit,ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
ehci_hcd 36744 0
generic 5892 0 [permanent]
ohci_hcd 22916 0
usbcore 140724 5 usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
shpchp 101032 0
pci_hotplug 31720 1 shpchp
ip6table_filter 3456 1
ip6_tables 21120 3 ip6t_REJECT,ip6table_mangle,ip6table_filter
ipv6 289024 11 ip6t_REJECT
parport_pc 44912 0
lp 14336 0
parport 43532 2 parport_pc,lp
nls_utf8 2688 2
ntfs 179160 2
dm_mod 65648 0
reiserfs 267120 1
fan 6152 0
thermal 17932 0
ide_cd 45984 0
cdrom 40888 1 ide_cd
processor 28368 2 powernow_k8,thermal
atiixp 6800 0 [permanent]
ide_disk 19584 5
ide_core 158616 5 usb_storage,generic,ide_cd,atiixp,ide_disk


LSPCI

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a3f
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a36
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4378 (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4319 (rev 02)
06:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
06:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
06:04.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
06:04.4 Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621, PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Secure Digital (SD) Controller
06:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)



IFCONFIG

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B0:BB:0B:79
inet addr:101.202.3.7 Bcast:101.202.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b0ff:febb:b79/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5937 (5.7 Kb) TX bytes:7967 (7.7 Kb)
Interrupt:153 Base address:0xa400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:440 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:440 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:34294 (33.4 Kb) TX bytes:34294 (33.4 Kb)

[shifty_ben]

OK so it looks like the ip_tables modules are running, which means it is more than possible that the SuSe firewall is causing the issues. It SuSe have started shipping locked down then this may explain this issue, A while back I completely closed all my ports for incoming traffic, result was when i restarted the router would assign me a DHCP address but then forget about me, its possible that this is happening to you.

Ok can you post the output from

iptables --list

you will probably need to run that as root.
I think it is likely to show a rule that is causing the issue.

Ben
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