Hey, Well I have a little problem with my Wireless and ethernet connecting to the internet.

Here's my situation:
I have an HP pavilion xt345 Laptop running SuSE Pro 9.0
Belkin F5D6020 wireless 802.11b pcmcia card

Prior to installing the wireless card my ethernet connection worked flawlessly.

I installed the card using YaST and it installed it as "Belkin 11Mbps Wireless Notebook Network Adapter Configured as wlan-pcmcia with DHCP",

Imediately afterward, the link light on the card lit solid indicating a connection and the wlan0 graph of statistics popped up on GKrellm. It showed a constant downstream and a connection but every program that attempted to connect to the internet said that the network was inaccessable. I could however browse the samba network and connect to other windows shares and download files but could not connect to the internet.

KWIFImanager was showing a full signal, 11MBits connection, Access point and local IP address values meaning it was working and connected. At first I thought it was the operation mode so I changed it to Infrastructure from peer-to-peer in the wireless network config in KWIFImanager. That didn't help so I tried changing the wireless settings in YaST from Ad-hoc to Managed, Repeater, Secondary and Automatic(which made it Ad-hoc). None of which helped.

Now after I took out the wireless card and tried to conect using ethernet again I was getting the same results. I was getting a constant downstream with all settings looking normal. I could no longer connect to the internet using any programs but could browse and connect to samba shares.

I'm thinking it must be some setting or something blocking my connection. The firewall is not activated and I don't know what else would be blocking it.

Update: Well I just noticed in SuSE plugger that there is another Network interface that wasnt there before... There was Ethernet network interface, and Loopback network interface before and now there is an extra one named Network Interface.

I suspect that this is something that could be the problem but anyone know how to remove that one? I can see the details of it but not change any of them.

Here is the output from ifconfig and iwconfig. I wasn't near the WAP to gain a signal when doing this so the link quality wasn't shown.

linux:/home/puyan909 # ifconfig

eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:0D:3C:4D
inet addr:24.159.217.221 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:fe0d:3c4d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:159405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:16840569 (16.0 Mb) TX bytes:3812 (3.7 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000

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:708 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:708 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:98352 (96.0 Kb) TX bytes:98352 (96.0 Kb)

wlan0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:BD:61E:B6
inet6 addr: fe80::230:bdff:fe61:deb6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:952 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:23 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:100225 (97.8 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

linux:/home/puyan909 # iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0
IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"MavNet" Nickname:"Prism I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417GHz Access Point: 00:0D:29:12:AD:A8
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry min limit:8 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0/92
Signal level:-102 dBm Noise level:-149 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:2 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Well it seems I figured it out... I searched some other forums and got a hint that it may be the DNS that caused the internet block. Sure enough I went into YaST --> Network Services --> DNS and Host Name and entered my primary and backup DNS addresses and whalla it connected... Hope this helps anyone else that my have been experiencing the same problem.