Can't get online...
 

i cant get online with my linux machine !!!

ok...
when i boot up and go into verbose mode i get this


when it says "Bringing up interface eth0:" it just sits there for about 3 minuts.

it then moves on to say the other thing, does some other stuff and boots like normal.

i use a linksys wireless card named eth1. it works through linuxant driverloader. when i start the prog it connects to the network (supposedly) and looks to be acting normaly. when i open a browser i cant get to any sites, i can't download anything, and can't even get updates and stuff though urpmi.

i can, however, connect to the network and get to the router settings. when i checked it everything was fine. ive tried to get on my syster's comp (with windoze) and it worked just perfectly.

:cry:

what do i do...? It used to work just fine...

I'm running mandrake 10.1 on an averatec 3150 laptop. I know very little in the way of linux so please speak in terms that a newb would understand.

Re: Can't get online...
 

That sounds like a DNS problem. Provided you can ping stuff (ip addresses, not names) then check /etc/resolv.conf and make sure you have a nameserver setup.

Why is your card named eth1 instead of eth0? Do you have a second one?

Obviously. He's already said that. He has eth0 and eth1. The first would be his regular wired NIC and the latter his wireless card.

Cheers

That sounds like a DHCP problem too.. how does your network setup look like?

fluxrad:
i do have a nameserver set up. resolve.conf looks like this

<------------------------------------------>
search domain.actdsltmp
nameserver 192.168.0.1
nameserver 205.171.3.65
<------------------------------------------>

ive never seen the second one but the first is the router ip.



FredL2:
what do you mean by "what does my network setup look like"?

can you ping your nameservers? do nslookups?

Look in /etc/network/interfaces and check you settings from there
If you wind up changing anything do a
#ifdown eth0
#ifup eth0

Gillman

the file
/etc/network/interfaces
doesn't exist... is this bad, or just because of my distro?
(lots of files described on this site dont exist on my computer)

I am not quite sure I was gonna install mandrake on a new computer I got tomorrow so I'll let you know then. My guesses are its not in your distro. I'll figure out more tomorrow once I am behind mandrake

Gillman

ok... but as i said before it used to work so you'll probably have no problems at all.
if you can figure it out it would be much apreciated.

I just noticied you never answered if you could ping the outside world.

Try ping 64.233.161.104
Thats google

Gillman

how do i ping??? (i know its a stupid Q...)

at the terminal type:

ping 64.233.161.104

and then post the output

Gillman

it just goes on forever about the same each time... i asume that this means "yes i can ping"