Hi,

I just did a fresh install of Fedora 14 using the DVD installation method. I selected KDE as my desktop.
When I login to the new installation as a regular user and not root, I can't access the internet. I did some poking around but I haven't determined what is going on.

Here's some info from my system.

[nick@HomeSlice ~]$ ping google.com
connect: Network is unreachable

nick@HomeSlice ~]$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0

[nick@HomeSlice ~]$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50A:BD:E3:A0
inet addr:192.168.1.64 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:febd:e3a0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1745 (1.7 KiB) TX bytes:6899 (6.7 KiB)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x4000

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:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:640 (640.0 b) TX bytes:640 (640.0 b)

[nick@HomeSlice ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.2 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.3 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c980-TX Fast Etherlink XL Server Adapter [Cyclone] (rev 30)
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
00:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 04)
00:0d.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD 2600XT]
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV630/M76 audio device [Radeon HD 2600 Series]

I went into Network Connections under System Settings and saw this,
http://i.imgur.com/1Vw19.png
Shouldn't I see eth0 listed under there?

Clicking on the little networking applet in the KDE task bar shows this, http://imgur.com/FOReq.png

I'm not sure what to do at this point. All my previous linux installations (suse, slackware, ubuntu, redhat) have always found my network card and connected to the Internet. Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Nick

This sentence is probably confusing. I only ever logged in as a regular user. I never tried logging in as root to see if the internet will work. I'll try but I doubt it will.

Hi,

you did not define a default gateway (manualy or via local ppp process), so the packets do not know where to go to find internet.

Check network configuration and add your router or ppp device as default gateway, this should look something like this:
You can use:

Thanks for the help! I can now connect to the Internet.
Now to get my screen resolution to stay at 1680x1050 after I set it and restart the computer.