Fedora 6 Network Problems

wizard91 · 5 Jan 2007 at 17:12

Hi,

Installed core 6 works real sweet apart from connecting to the network and web which does not work.

I have an adsl router (netgear) with four other machines connected through it.

I have set up manually.

Address: 192.168.0.XX
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.0.XX (this being the router setting)

Tried to ping the router but cannot be reached.

Any help appreciated.

wizard91 · 5 Jan 2007 at 17:19

Ok, but how do you get to your iConfig? Im a new to Linux by the way lol.

wizard91 · 5 Jan 2007 at 17:33

Una said:
Run it from a terminal.

alex@nop:~$ ifconfig

And paste the output here.

Open up terminal type in if config like this:

[rasc@localhost:~] $ ifconfig
bash: command not found.

I am a total newb at this, obvious I know :+)

wizard91 · 5 Jan 2007 at 18:17

I have found the the ifConfig file, but I dont know how to get it open? Anyone know?

wizard91 · 5 Jan 2007 at 18:36

riddlermarc said:

in a terminal, type:

su followed by the root password
then /sbin/ifconfig

.. and see if there is an entry for "eth0"? You should see something like this:

Code:

[root@mailbkp /]# /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:04:38:D4:51
          inet addr:10.0.0.9  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:4ff:fe38:d451/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5957832 errors:1207 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1283
          TX packets:7281734 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2402488444 (2.2 GiB)  TX bytes:3137698395 (2.9 GiB)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe400

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:51543 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:51543 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:65791095 (62.7 MiB)  TX bytes:65791095 (62.7 MiB)

Okay got that, cannot paste it up as I have no way doing so but it basicaly has the same as you have posted except I have an eth0, eth1 and lo.

wizard91 · 5 Jan 2007 at 18:37

I have also disabled firewall to see but no change.

wizard91 · 5 Jan 2007 at 19:08

Moving on I have deactivated eth1 and pinged 192.168.0.1 which gives results but still no connection to the net??

wizard91 · 5 Jan 2007 at 19:22

Ive got windows server running, and I can see that, and browse all the server directories, so the network is obviously running. But I just cannot get to the internet.

wizard91 · 5 Jan 2007 at 20:07

deano said:
thought he could ping his router^
can you ping :-

83.223.98.170

Ping as requested and got:

"Network is unreachable"

Which is strange because I can see all the other machines on the network and browse the server drives.

wizard91 · 6 Jan 2007 at 11:03

FirebarUK said:
Ok, in a terminal do;

su -
gedit /etc/resolv.conf

Then type in exactly this (just the one line, no need for anything else);

Code:

nameserver 192.168.0.1

Save the file and close gedit - ta da! (That was assuming your router's IP was 192.168.0.1)

You should then be able to access the internet, and from a terminal do something like;

ping www.google.com

which will resolve the fqdn.

Open the resolv.conf file and it already has:

nameserver 192.168.0.1

wizard91 · 6 Jan 2007 at 13:22

Got it now, working perfect

, thanks for your help anyway guys. Just rebooted Linux and started from scratch, and it worked :S.