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Old 07-03-2004, 01:18 PM   #1
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Fedora Networking Help


Hello Linux Friends,

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.

System info is as such:

Soyo KT333 dragon Plus Mobo
Onboard Intel Ethernet T10/100
Onboard CMedia Sound
AMD 1G Processor
512M DDR Ram
ATI Radeon 7000VE 64M AGP
Maxtor 13G HDD
Creative 52X CDROM

Networking Router
Linksys BEFSR41 v2 w/the latest firmaware installed.

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.

Thanks In Advance,

Nyxx
Future Penguista

p.s To US residents have a good 4th weekend.
 
Old 07-03-2004, 01:48 PM   #2
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Welcome to LQ.

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.
 
Old 07-03-2004, 02:33 PM   #3
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David,

Thanks for the rapid reply, it is when I try to goto any named external address i.e www.linuxquestions.org etc..

From within Gnome under the User account not root, where would I enter those commands? The terminal?

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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.
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Thanks

nyxx
 
Old 07-03-2004, 02:38 PM   #4
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It shouldn't matter if you are root or not but if you aren't you may need:
/sbin/route -n

You can run it from any bash prompt. Just open gnome-terminal
 
Old 07-03-2004, 02:55 PM   #5
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David,

When I tried to run it from terminal prior to your 2nd post the commands did not work so I logged in under root and entered them in the terminal.

A ping -c1 64.179.4.149 Resulted in Network is Unreachable.

Route -n results are

Destination---Gateway---Genmask-------Flags---Metric---Ref---Use---Iface
192.168.1.0---0.0.0.0---255.255.255.0-----u-----0-------0-------0----eth0
169.254.0.0---0.0.0.0---255.255.0.0-------u-----0-------0-------0----eth0
127.0.0.0-----0.0.0.0---255.0.0.0----------u-----0-------0-------0---10


Thanks,
Nyxx

Last edited by nyxx; 07-03-2004 at 03:00 PM.
 
Old 07-03-2004, 03:02 PM   #6
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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
 
Old 07-03-2004, 03:36 PM   #7
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David,

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

Route -n results are

Destination---Gateway---------Genmask-------Flags---Metric---Ref---Use---Iface
192.168.1.0---0.0.0.0---------255.255.255.0-----u-----0-------0-------0----eth0
169.254.0.0---0.0.0.0---------255.255.0.0-------u-----0-------0-------0----eth0
127.0.0.0-----0.0.0.0---------255.0.0.0----------u-----0-------0-------0---10
0.0.0.0-------192.168.1.254---0.0.0.0------------ug----0------0------0----eth0

Thanks,
Nyxx
 
Old 07-03-2004, 03:41 PM   #8
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I thought your rotuer was 192.168.1.1? What is 192.168.1.254?

Try setting the gateway to 192.168.1.1
 
Old 07-03-2004, 03:51 PM   #9
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David,

That did the trick, My thanks to you. Have a good weekend.

Nyxx
 
  


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