Hi everyone!

I am VERY new to Linux.

I have a home network which consists of a DSL 'modem' attached to a Linksys router which provides DHCP service to two Windows computers, and a combined router/print server. Works fine.

Recently loaded Fedora C-2 on a third machine, was previously used for Windows, but installed Fedora as the sole OS. Machine has one NIC.

During setup I enabled firewall, with www, FTP, SSH and Mail(SMTP) allowed.

I (think I) set up the network to automaticall obtain a network address using DHCP.

Problem is, I can't fond the network, can't ping the router, etc.
Hardware is recognized, and seems to be working.

I know I'm doing something(s) wrong but what?

I'm using the graphical interface, chosen during setup, because I thought it should be easier (!?) Have not yet figured out how to get to the CLI.

Can one of you kind people point me in the right direction?

Thanks!!

Hi Olddog2, welcome to lq. First I'd disable the firewall completely until things are working, then you can enable it and configure on from there. Next we need to see if the nic is up and running, You should have an icon on your desktop that looks like a tv with a seashell on it. That's Konsole, it's give you access to the cli from the gui. Open it, at the prompt issue

su -
rootpassword enter your root password.

You should now be root with root's environment. Please issue the following commands and post the output here in this thread.

lspci -v

lsmod

ifconfig -a

route -n

We'll need all of this info to help. Hopefully we'll get you going.
good luck.

Peacedog,

I must be in deeper trouble than I thought...

I don't have the TV with seashell icon (konsole) on my desktop, and I couldn't find it anywhere on the Start menu or sub-menus. So I opened up Terminal, and entered su, and it prompted for root pswrd, and accepted it.

lspci -v <response was> bash: lspci: command not found.

I got the same response for:

lsmod <resp> bash: lsmod: command not found
ifconfig -a <ditto>
route -n <ditto>

Hmmm... I'm running GNOME desktop, I think....

New tricks are tough to learn!

Konsole is just one of the most popular, any terminal will do. Try su - instead of su, or add the path.
e.g. /sbin/lspci -v.

One of those should work, if not, post back, we'll drop back, punt, and try something else.
good luck.

Peacedog,

Success!! Here is the output of the various commands:

[chris@localhost chris]$ su
Password:

[root@localhost chris]# /sbin/lspci -v

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX Host bridge (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: e0000000-e1dfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e1f00000-e3ffffff

00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at d800 [size=16]

00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 4
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]

00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

00:06.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7880U
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 4
I/O ports at d000 [disabled]
Memory at df800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 4
I/O ports at b800

00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: S3 Inc. SonicVibes
Subsystem: Aztech System Ltd: Unknown device 1000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at b400
I/O ports at b000 [size=16]
I/O ports at a800 [size=4]
I/O ports at a400 [size=4]
I/O ports at a000 [size=8]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Creative Labs 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=e1ff0000]
Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Expansion ROM at 00010000 [disabled]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

[root@localhost chris]# /sbin/lsmod

Module Size Used by
snd_mixer_oss 13824 2
snd_sonicvibes 17124 3
snd_pcm 68872 1 snd_sonicvibes
snd_page_alloc 7940 1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib 7424 1 snd_sonicvibes
snd_timer 17156 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 6276 1 snd_opl3_lib
gameport 3328 1 snd_sonicvibes
snd_mpu401_uart 4864 1 snd_sonicvibes
snd_rawmidi 17184 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 6152 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 38372 11 snd_mixer_oss,snd_sonicvibes,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,sn d_seq_device
soundcore 6112 3 snd
parport_pc 19392 1
lp 8236 0
parport 29640 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 10624 0
sunrpc 101064 1
3c59x 30376 0
floppy 47440 0
sg 27552 0
microcode 4768 0
dm_mod 33184 0
uhci_hcd 23708 0
ipv6 184288 8
ext3 102376 2
jbd 40216 1 ext3
aic7xxx 135864 0
sd_mod 16384 0
scsi_mod 91344 3 sg,aic7xxx,sd_mod

[root@localhost chris]# /sbin/ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:9C:3A:01
inet6 addr: fe80::260:97ff:fe9c:3a01/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:2 carrier:2
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:32437 (31.6 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:4 Base address:0xb800

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:4686 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4686 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4852594 (4.6 Mb) TX bytes:4852594 (4.6 Mb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[root@localhost chris]# /sbin/route -n

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
[root@localhost chris]#

Thanks!

Im no guru but it looks as if Eth0 is not accepting the dhcp, Also you will need to enter the DNS name severs manually as fedora seems to like this better. Most likly your going to use this server for some testing of network applications so I'd put a static IP on it for easyer finding when you decide to run your webserver,mailserver..... This is what i would do.

I agree you're not getting an ip address. The tricky part will be pinning down why. The hardware seems ok, but just to check try assigning a static address. Some dhcp clients are picky so you might try changing the client.
good luck.

Thanks, guys.

Let me try a static address

-Olddog2

Hi all,

I eventually gave up, and installed Fedora Core 3. Came up without any problems.

Thanks!

Olddog2

Well there's always more than one way to skin a cat. Glad your sorted.
good luck.