Guest charlus Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 (edited) Hey, I've been enjoying open source software on Window$ for quiet a while, so here I am on mandrake.... I setup mandrake community on my Dell laptop. The setup was fine. My network card seems to be ok ( cf the verbose during start of the system). My internet connexion is a LAN (cable internet from chinese provider) access. So I have no password or login. Just some IP , subnet, gateway and dns server to fill in. My connection is running really well on window$.... I tried to fill the same information under linux but .... No web access.... But It seems that I am connected to the network but not internet ( cf. drakconf graphical which shows some small network activity but tell me i am not connected the internet)...... After reading quiet a lot of posts on the subject here are my details, I hope it will help you to help me. ( I have painfull permanent switch between linux and Micros to be able to send you the data of my problem....) here we are [root@10 charlus]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:E0:6B:33:A9 inet addr:10.79.1.92 Bcast:10.79.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:146 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:17207 (16.8 Kb) TX bytes:294 (294.0 B) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4594 (4.4 Kb) TX bytes:4594 (4.4 Kb) [root@10 charlus]# ///////////////// hosts file 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.79.1.92 10.0.0.1 10 //// ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=10.79.1.92 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=10.79.0.0 BROADCAST=10.79.255.255 ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=00:20:e0:6b:33:a9 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no //////////////// ifcfg-lo DEVICE=lo IPADDR=127.0.0.1 NETMASK=255.0.0.0 NETWORK=127.0.0.0 # If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian, # you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example) BROADCAST=127.255.255.255 ONBOOT=yes NAME=loopback why I do not have the same information of ifcfg-lo and ifcfg-eth0 ? To be honest i am lost with all those info. I have some picture of my screen I may exchange by email if it can help. Please also let me know which info you may need to rescue and how to get them. I appreciate the time you will offer and be sure I will post on the forum as soon as my linux knowledge will be strong enough. Have a nice day here is a screen capture which may help. What is this 0.0.1 in the search field ( cf. capture) ? Edited July 11, 2004 by charlus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streeter Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 (edited) Hello charlus - welcome to Mandrake! Your /etc/hosts file is incorrect - the line saying 10.79.1.92 10.0.0.1 10 should read 10.79.1.92 charlus if charlus is the name you want for your computer - you can put any name here. The 0.0.1 in the search field will have been taken from your /etc/resolv.conf file - it has grabbed the last part of what it thinks is your hostname (10.0.0.1 - should be charlus or something - check in Windows for what you called it there) and is using that . Just delete the line "search 0.0.1" from the file. You should also have a line that starts nameserver. this should have the IP address of your ISPs nameserver, e.g. "nameserver 10.0.0.1" The address may be different - get it from Windows/your ISP. You will probably have to change the /etc/sysconfig/network file too - change the line that (probably) says HOSTNAME=10.0.0.1 to HOSTNAME=charlus. Also make sure the GATEWAY= is set to your ISPs default gateway (10.0.0.1?) and possibly GATEWAYDEV=eth0. Restart the computer Typing hostname should then give you charlus or whatever you called it. ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-lo should be different, and they both look OK. There is a howto that may help here: http://web.onetel.net.uk/~showerail/simple_net_setup.html or you can reach it from the sticky post at the top of the networking forum. Let us know how you get on Chris Edited July 11, 2004 by streeter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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