internet connection
 

I have a kn8ultra939 mb with inbuilt gigabit connection the internet is optus cable work fine on xp but can not get it to work on red hat 9. There is no dns for optus as it is a permanent connection
can anyone help or is it impossible to do

I dont understand what you mean there is no dns, there has to be dns or there will be no sort of name resolution taking place. I believe what you mean is that you have a dynamic ip. If this is the case you just need to set up your network connection to dhcp. This means it will use your ISP as its dns source.
Hope that helps.
Sorry If I am wrong.

There has to be a DNS of some sort (either your own, your ISP's, or an open one) in order to look up hostnames. Is there anything in-between the cable modem and the computer? If it works in XP, then get the network information (IP address, and DNS servers) from XP and use those in linux.

P.S.
If you are starting out in linux, I suggest you get a more modern distro (redhat 9 is old and unsupported --- try fedora core, a community-version derivative).

You always will have DNS for any internet service provider, regardless of the type of connection. Find out ( form XP id it works ) what your DNS addresses are and edit your /etc/resolv.conf file ( edit it as root ) and add lines such as :

nameserver 206.47.244.52
nameserver 206.47.244.108

These are the name servers my ISP provides, they won't work for you.

Thanks to all re the internet connection you are all right and as a newbie I guess its understandble. I have put all the ip address numbers sub net mask numbers dns server numbers etc however it still does not connect I guess this is because it is a gigabitconnection so Linux doesnt understand this type of connection

Cheers

I still don't understand the problem. What is not working? Where are you putting the numbers in? How have you tried to fix it? I doubt that linux does not have a driver for that card, but redhat 9 used a kernel 2.4.20(?), and may not included it. As I said before, if this is your first try at linux (which it seems to be), why not a newer distro?

Your hardware is too new for Redhat 9. That came out years ago, when gigabit nics were super expensive server only things. As was mentioned above, upgrading to a distro that is from late 2005 or 2006 will automatically detect and use your gigabit card.

It is a shame Redhat 9 ever came out, becuase it was junk to begin with, and now years later, half the posts here are asking why things don't work with RH9. Please all newbies, ditch RH! If you like it, go to Fedora Core 5. That is correct, there have been 5 major releases by the same folks that gave us RH9.

Peace,
JimBass