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I have a RH 7.2, and trying to connect to the internet. My isp is <a href="http://www.dslextreme.com">dslextreme</a> and I connect throught the internet through a router. My network cards is a broadcom iline10. How would I get linux to recognize and configure the network/modem my isp gave me these <a href="http://www.dslextreme.com/setup/linux.htm">instructions</a> I followed them but nothign seems to happen.
Ifconfig is something like ipconfig command in windoze, it gave information about your running network adapter.
Type it and just look if you can see something like Eth0 (ethernet 0) if not your network card is not running (you can try ifconfig eth0 up to make it available in this case)
If you can get to a command window known as a terminal or xterm in X
then you need to gain root access
this is normally done by this command....
su -
then you input your root password when asked for it
or
login as root
you must know the address for the router, and then use an ip address on that network that's not already taken.
then run this command using the determined address instead of the one I have here....
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.101
if you have a nic that's working it will set it's ip address
then you can ping the router
the routers ip address would be 192.168.0.1 or something.
use this command...
ping 192.168.0.1
If you don't understand this then you will need to read the networking howto's, or some other source of basic networking in order to be able the understand this stuff.
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