Hooking up two computers, SuSE & Win XP

I have a new computer that came with Windows XP installed. I
have hooked it up
to a router. Now I want to add a SuSE 9.1 computer and
form a two computer home network. How do I get the router
to recognize the linux box? The only thing I want to
accomplish at this point is to get both computers to share
my cable modem.

I assume I have to add the ip address, gateway, subnet mask
etc., but how do I do this from the Linux machine? Or is it now
time for much homework?

Thanks in advance,

Don

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:31:17 GMT, don wrote:
> I have a new computer that came with Windows XP installed. I
> have hooked it up
> to a router. Now I want to add a SuSE 9.1 computer and
> form a two computer home network. How do I get the router
> to recognize the linux box?

router should not care what OS is connected to it.
The router gives out dhcp assigned addresses or you hard code an ip
address that the router will accept.

> The only thing I want to accomplish at this point is to get both
> computers to share my cable modem.
>
> I assume I have to add the ip address, gateway, subnet mask
> etc.,

Only if you set the nic static. I would assume the router has a dhcp
server inside of it.

> but how do I do this from the Linux machine? Or is it now
> time for much homework?

Or at least look around in Yast.

don wrote:
> I have a new computer that came with Windows XP installed. I
> have hooked it up
> to a router. Now I want to add a SuSE 9.1 computer and
> form a two computer home network. How do I get the router
> to recognize the linux box? The only thing I want to
> accomplish at this point is to get both computers to share
> my cable modem.
>
> I assume I have to add the ip address, gateway, subnet mask
> etc., but how do I do this from the Linux machine? Or is it now
> time for much homework?

My router is a Linksys WRT54G, which is also a wireless access point. I
configured it to run a DHCP server in the 192.168.1.x network with its
IP address as 192.168.1.1 on the LAN side. Each of the client machines
(2 XP, 1 Linux and 1 dual boot) uses dynamic addressing on its
interface. Some of the computers are connected by wire, others are
wireless. When each machine connects, the IP number, routing tables,
nameservers, etc. are automatically setup. Under XP, the setup is done
in the Control Panel/Network Connections. On SuSE, you can do it from
YaST. The WAN side of the router is plugged into a cable modem from
which it gets its address from Time Warner. Your router should have
similar capability. If not, then it is homework time, but YaST will help
the SuSE setup.

Larry

On 2005-12-13, Bit Twister wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:31:17 GMT, don wrote:
>> I have a new computer that came with Windows XP installed. I
>> have hooked it up
>> to a router. Now I want to add a SuSE 9.1 computer and
>> form a two computer home network. How do I get the router
>> to recognize the linux box?
>
> router should not care what OS is connected to it.
> The router gives out dhcp assigned addresses or you hard code an ip
> address that the router will accept.
>
>> The only thing I want to accomplish at this point is to get both
>> computers to share my cable modem.
>>
>> I assume I have to add the ip address, gateway, subnet mask
>> etc.,
>
> Only if you set the nic static. I would assume the router has a dhcp
> server inside of it.
>
>> but how do I do this from the Linux machine? Or is it now
>> time for much homework?
>
> Or at least look around in Yast.

Hi again, Bit Twister. I did not think to do that. Should
have been my first step. Turned out I did not have a
problem at all. I just had to reboot my Linux box and
everything worked after that.

Thanks for the feedback, BT.

Don

On 2005-12-13, Larry Finger wrote:
> don wrote:
>> I have a new computer that came with Windows XP installed. I
>> have hooked it up
>> to a router. Now I want to add a SuSE 9.1 computer and
>> form a two computer home network. How do I get the router
>> to recognize the linux box? The only thing I want to
>> accomplish at this point is to get both computers to share
>> my cable modem.
>>
>> I assume I have to add the ip address, gateway, subnet mask
>> etc., but how do I do this from the Linux machine? Or is it now
>> time for much homework?
>
> My router is a Linksys WRT54G, which is also a wireless access point. I
> configured it to run a DHCP server in the 192.168.1.x network with its
> IP address as 192.168.1.1 on the LAN side. Each of the client machines
> (2 XP, 1 Linux and 1 dual boot) uses dynamic addressing on its
> interface. Some of the computers are connected by wire, others are
> wireless. When each machine connects, the IP number, routing tables,
> nameservers, etc. are automatically setup.

Yeah. I have the same router. All I had to do was reboot
my Linux computer and it's now working.

> Under XP, the setup is done
> in the Control Panel/Network Connections. On SuSE, you can do it from
> YaST. The WAN side of the router is plugged into a cable modem from
> which it gets its address from Time Warner. Your router should have
> similar capability. If not, then it is homework time, but YaST will help
> the SuSE setup.
>
> Larry

Thanks for the feedback, Larry.

Don