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As of today I am a newbie to the linux world, as I received a gift for a recent birthday of a book packaged with Fedora Core 1 However the book covers basics and not really troubleshooting.
I have had the excess parts from upgrades to build the system for a while and have been interested in learning to use linux. Thus you will find some hardware items less than current.
I have installed the Fedora Core 1 linux and packages that came with the guide and got as far as networking, I am on a network with 2 XP HE computers connected to a linksys BEFSR41 now on the XP boxes it's plug N surf..
I need help setting up fedora. The on board networking is detected its a VT(several numbers) Rhine II or to XP a VIA T10/100 Ethernet port, and it is shown in the network setup as eth0 it will not auto detect dhcp, it fails during boot and if I insert an ip i.e 192.168.102 and 255.255.255.0 and refresh It will show active and I can connect to the router setup, via 192.168.1.1 but not the internet.
I am working within gnome under the user account and yes have and know the root password, I know not square one what to do, and would appreciate a very newbie ish hand held walkthrough.
Internet Information
Verizon DSL PPOE
Dynamic IP's change connection is maintained by the router.
The router is setup as a dhcop server for upto 3 Machines.
When you say that you cannot connect to the internet - is it just dns names that are causing the problem?
ping -c1 www.linuxquestions.org
ping -c1 64.179.4.149
Also check that your defautl route is set to "192.168.1.1":
route -n
if you are unsure about this then post the output of the above commands.
You seem to have no default route (the route that packets take when there are no more specific matching rules). In Fedora I think you can set this by running:
netconfig
For your network it will most likely be 192.168.1.1
After you have set the gateway, run:
service network restart
You should then be able to at least ping external IP addresses - if you still have problems with resolving DNS names then put your ISPs DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf - the format is:
nameserver ip.of.primary.dns
nameserver ip.of.secondary.dns
When I tried to run netconfig in the root terminal there are 4 entries ipadress netmask default gateway and primary nameserver. I enter 192.168.1.102 as the ip address b/c my other 2 pc's are assigned 192.168.100, and 101 by dhcp. anyway it generated the netmask 255.255.255.0 default gateway 192.168.1.254 and primary nameserver 192.168.1.1
A ping -c1 64.179.4.149
Resulted in 1 Packet transmitted 0 received +1 errors 100% packet loss time 0ms pipe2
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