I just finished the LFS 6.0 book. _Successfully booted into my new LFS system. _
I wanted to check if my on-board LAN is working properly. _when I issue the
ping command the systems just sits there. _After Ctrl-c, it indicates that 10
packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet lost. _Below are
my /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf files. _Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

/etc/hosts
# Begin /etc/hosts (network card version)

127.0.0.1 linux1 localhost
192.168.1.1 <linux1>.example.org linux1

# End /etc/hosts (network card version)

/etc/resolv.conf
# Begin /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 192.168.1.254
nameserver 68.87.66.196
nameserver 68.87.64.196

# End /etc/resolv.conf

Does the kernel see the network card ?

'dmesg | grep eth0' should answer the above question. If the card driver is installed then check the contents of /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/ipv4

also your /etc/hosts file should be changed from

127.0.0.1 linux1 localhost
192.168.1.1 <linux1>.example.org linux1

to

127.0.0.1 linux1 localhost
192.168.1.1 linux1.example.org linux1

HTH

Mad.

I finally got it working. I had to use the information from my router instead of what was in the LFS book. Once I put that information into /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 I was able to ping and get the response Iwas looking for.

Thanks for the help.