Need Help with internet

spartanM19SSM · 10-07-2004, 04:17 PM

I need help hooking up my internet. I have sucessfully ran the ethernet cord hooked it up to the router, but whenever I try to run a internet browser it doesnt work. I have linux Red Hat 7. ( I will be upgrading as soon as my friend get me FC1).
Any help would be appreciated!

OrphanedLand · 10-07-2004, 05:04 PM

Did you set up your IP address and Router properly?

Can you ping to the router?

What is your IP address and Router's IP address?

spartanM19SSM · 10-07-2004, 06:35 PM

Im not sure what my IP address is but my dad told me the IP address on my router always changes...
How do I ping the router?
THX

Skyline · 10-07-2004, 06:38 PM

>> but whenever I try to run a internet browser it doesnt work. <<

Do you mean you can't get to your router's config area via it's LAN side ip address or do you mean you can't access the internet even after configuring everything?

michaelk · 10-07-2004, 07:06 PM

The router's WLAN port i.e. the side that connects to the modem or internet side is a dynamic IP address. The local LAN side of the router is a static IP address. It sounds like you need to setup your ethernet connection.

Here is some documentation on configuring the network.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...rk-config.html

OrphanedLand · 10-08-2004, 03:32 AM

Hello spartan,

The idea is like this:

http://www.prizmabilgisayar.com/orph...nd/network.png

For this example, Router's LAN Side IP's and Your Linux' IP's first three octet must be same (by 24). (look at 10.0.0) Otherwise, your computer cannot connect to the router.

This is only an example (IPs may be different, but idea is same). I think that your network is like this... To check your Linux' IP write this (as root) command in terminal window:

ifconfig

If you want to ping the router use this command:

ping 10.0.0.1 (for above example)

I hope that this will help you...

spartanM19SSM · 10-08-2004, 02:54 PM

how do I figure out what my routers IP address is so I can ping it?

mermxx · 10-08-2004, 03:18 PM

try using the command ifconfig this will give u the ip addys u need

spartanM19SSM · 10-08-2004, 03:41 PM

just figured that out...(like 5 min before I checked th forum agai)
So.... i sucessfully pinged my router, now what?
On the Konsole it reads somthing like:
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1 icmp_seq=740 ttl=255 time=0.112 ms
I have little/no knowlage of what that means.
THX

mermxx · 10-08-2004, 04:13 PM

ok u haven`t actually pinged ur router u have pinged ur loopback to ur linux box 127.0.0.1 so what this means is that u r pinging the machine u r using. So it would seem that u have a problem with ur connection from your machine to your router which needs to be sorted before u worry about pinging and addys. Is the machine u r connecting to your router the only one or do u have another machine that u r trying to connect to?

spartanM19SSM · 10-08-2004, 05:11 PM

Well, that sucks...
Could a spliced CAT5 ethernet wire do anything? I have done that before though so it shouldnt do anything.
I have 3 comps hooked up on a 5-port router and I tried an empty slot and still dont work...

spartanM19SSM · 10-08-2004, 09:51 PM

I tested it w/ my dads laptop... I disconnected it from wireless and hooked it up to the same ethernet cord of the Linux computer, and it worked fine...
So its not the cord. I have an extra ethernet card and tomorrow I am going to see if that was the problem...
THX

spartanM19SSM · 10-09-2004, 11:00 AM

now... instead of it just immediatly going to "error cannot find server" it seems like it just cant find it...
I activated the new ethernet card thingy but still no luck...
Could anyone help me out?

spartanM19SSM · 10-09-2004, 12:22 PM

Thanks a LOT guys, I figured it out thanks to you.
(I am posting from Linux machine now)
-Zach

mermxx · 10-09-2004, 02:46 PM

well done glad u got it sorted :-)