Hi! i've installed debian successfully. Now I'm having problems connecting to internet. Whenever i try to visit a webpage on Konqueror webbrowser it gives an error message unknown host. My ifconfig looks like below(also i assigned the inet addr to eth0 by the ifconfig coomand) i even started it using ifconfig eth0 up but no luck:

eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
inet addr: 192.168.123.105 Bcast 192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Mtric:1
RX packets:1329 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 tuxqueuelen:100
RX bytes: 437451(427.1KiB) TX bytes:0(0.0b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe400

lo Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
OP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:448 errors:0 dropped:0
TX packets:448 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
collusions:0 tuxqueuelen:0
RX bytes:36016(35.1KiB) TX bytes:36016(35.1KiB)

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with it?
Thanks in advance.

--CR

start with:
do either/both work?

I tried ping google.com

it says unknown host

and ping 216.239.39.99

says:

wrote 216.239.39.99 64chars ret=-1
ping:sendto: Network is unreachable

And it continuously print the same thing again and again. So i had to kill the process by pressing ctrl-Z.

Thanks.

--CR

yeah-- ping'll go until you kill it, there's an option (-c 5) which'll give it a count of 5, meaning after 5 pings it stops... it could be -c 10 for 10 counts -- you get the point.

what's it say?

given your IP is .102, i'm guessing it is dynamically assigned, is this true?

aaannd... given that you are able to reply to this thread, i assume your network is in good shape, and this problem can be limited to your linux pc...

i tried doin' ping 216.239.39.99 -c 5
it says

5packets transmitted; o packets received 100% packet loss.

And route gives:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination GAteway GEnmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.123.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

Yeah my 2 computers are behind a router. One is with windowsxp and the other one is debian.

I believe my ip is dynamic.

---CR

And also my internet connection is dsl. Is this causing problem?
Does anyone had any problem like mine?

--CR

Just learned this

Edit /etc/network/interfaces to read
then enter

Thanks a lot now it works.


--CR