configuring machine for internet access
 

I have installed a nic card on my computer and I would like to access the internet. I have setup the address I want 192.168.1.1 in ifconfig and when I type route -n the gateway is 192.168.1.254 but when I ping this address is gives me an error "Destination Host Unreachable". What Am I missing. Can anyone assist me. Thanks in advance. Jerry

first try

# /etc/init.d/network restart



it sounds to me like your 192.168.1.1 address should be the ip address of your gateway, ie router. This is one default router ip address that I know of. I guess 192.168.1.254 could be a gateway address also.

post output to the following commands:

ifconfig and
"dmesg | grep eth"

Are you running FC3?? if so you can just type "system-config-network" to reconfigure your network interfaces.

~Zach

Need some additional info. Are you just connecting to an existing LAN or is this your home network? What does the network hardware consist of?

after I ran the dmesg | grep eth, I got no IPv6 Rouers present. This computer is to setup a home LAN and after I shutdown the network interface I restarted and ping to the gateway and it doesn't reach it.

I have changed the ip address from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.10 and the gateway address to 192.168.1.1 and still have the same problem, it tells me that the address I am pinging is unreachable, even though the address is the one to the gateway.

For us to be of any assistance, you're going to have to tell us the structure of your network. I assume you have a router set up in you home. What is the ip address of that? That will be the ip address of your gateway.

the machine that i have is a dual pentium with a nic 2000 card. I want to access the internet using a dsl modem. One time when I had red hat 8.0 i somewhat got it to run for at least couple of months but i don't remember what i did then. I decided to upgrade to fedora 3 but i can not remember how to get eth0 to read the ip address for the gateway. i get it to accept 192.168.1.10 as the address and the the gateway address i am setting up is 192.168.1.1. I checked the route -n and it tells me that the default gateway is 192.168.1.1 on eth0 which i believe is how i would get to go out but no result. I cannot connect other computers to that one yet because they are windows based and i have not setup samba. Thank you for your assistance