Peter Chatterton

I changed to firewall to let everything thru.

In MCC > Mange Hosts, I added the host 192.168.2.1

Under network monitoring I connected ethernet:

-- it showed some trailing dots, then

-- "connection complete" and then

-- "not connected"

ping 192.168.2.1 worked

Konqueror gives the error "Unknown host".

In CLI, host linux.org gives "No host could be reached".

Under MCC > Manage Connections > DHCP

should there be a DHCP host name?

It's blank.

/etc/resolv.conf contains:

search no-domain-set.bellcanada

nameserver 192.168.2.1

nameserver 192.168.2.1

In view of my lack of Linux knowledge, this could be a very simple-minded sort of problem; maybe I'm leaving out a basic step. Is there another step after configuring the network in MCC and starting it from the Connections dialog?

The foll. are from the Network Connections page in XP.

Sympatico HSE (type Broadband). This is the one I connect to the internet with.

TCP/IP specifies for IP @ and DNS server to be obtained automatically.

This is PPPoE.

The foll. are from Status > Details

Server IP 64.230.197.19 -- XP pings okay

Client IP 65.92.70.7 XP -- XP no ping

LAN 6 (type LAN or high-speed iNet). This needed to access the internet, tho I don't know why.

192.168.0.1 -- XP no ping

This is spec'd under TCP/IP

Under Linux:

64.230.197.19, 192.168.0.1 and 65.92.70.7 all said "Network is unreachable". BTW how does one stop the ping process? I'm having to close the sessions.

I haven't changed the .conf files yet as I've forgotten how to use vi. Is there a GUI type editor available?

How do I run the CODEhost linux.org command?

ifconfig eth0

Link encap: Ethernet

HWaddr 00:02:55:8A:69:1D

inet addr: 192.168.2.13

Bcast: 192.168.2.255

Mask 255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe8...

Scope:link

RX packets: 343 errors: 0

TX packets: 2332 errors: 0

RX bytes: 37KiB

TX bytes: 167 KiB

Interrupt: 20

netstat -r

Dest 192.168.2.0

default 192.168.2.1

I still can't connect.

On the Connections icon (in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, it looks like two lumps of shishkebob on a stick at a 45 degree angle) if I hover the mouse over it it says "Network is up on interface eth0". If I pull the cable it says "Network is down...".

If I rt-click it and get into the Network Monitoring dialog and select "Connect to Internet" from a pull-down, there's no extra activity at the modem. I tried resetting the modem as well. In the log it says its launching /usr/sbin/usernetctl eth0 report

I should have said it was a Konqueror error and it said it needed Lisa for LAN browsing (more or less).

Actually I don't think I even tried browsing, now that I have I can tell you it gives "unknown host".

I haven't yet done the urpme lisa, is it necessary?

Thanks guys.

I changed it to a LAN connection, rebooted and it says the Lisa daemon isn't running. What now?

Welcome to the board

--thanks

Are you saying that now after installing gstreamer it's working, or that you still have problems?

--i still have problems

Does your isp give static or dhcp ip's? Check for dhcp packages being installed:

rpm -qa | grep dhcp

 

your output should look something like this:

 

[ian@europa ~]$ rpm -qa | grep dhcp

dhcp-client-3.0.3-3mdk

dhcp-common-3.0.3-3mdk

--yes I get the same output, with the second line first

I don't have much experience with Linux, especially not recently, and am trying to access the Internet having installed Mandriva 2006 x86 DVD from CheapBytes on a PIII IBM NetVista.

It's a Speedstream modem with USB or Ethernet connection, I'm using the Ethernet for both my windows box and the Linux.

I used the Mandrake Control Center > Setup new network interface with ADSL and PPPoE.

I tried it with and without the DNS data. I also confirmed the user name & password with my ISP (Bell Sympatico in Ontario, Canada)

The Ethernet and DSL leds came on and occasionally the Activity led but eventually it said: The system does not seem to be connected to the internet.

Under Hardware > Options I tried auto-detecting the modem and it gave a warning that the gstreamer-alsa package wasn't installed; it then seemed to install it.

Thanks for your help,

Peter.