OK I Am A Linux Newbie But I Like What I See Very Much...
i have aquainted myself ok with it all but no matter what i try i cannot get my Rogers High-Speed Internet working on my RedHat 8...
Any Help Is Greatly Appreciated...
Thanks In Advance,
Mike

First of all tell us a bit about your setup.
Do you have a router or NIC to connect it up? USB?
Static or DHCP for IP.
Some service require a log on is this possible with yours?

I Have Rogers high speed cable internet this box has an NIC and i am connected to the modem through a linksys switch. the connection is supposed to be always on and there is no logon
hel is appreciated

You will have to be a bit more detailed than that. Try running ifconfig -a and posting the results. Also, do you remember what networking options you selected during install? You can help us help you by helping yourself. Like how about telling us if you have a static or dynamic address? If you don't know, you need to find out because I won't waste my time explaining something you can find in 30 seconds on Google.com

when i setup linux networking i chose DHCP and i had eth0 active on boot the host name was automatic and all misc options were greyed out i used default firewall settings on medium (these are exact settings as i wrote them down
when i type ifconfig in terminal i get this:

[mike@localhost mike]$ ifconfig -a
bash: ifconfig: command not found
[mike@localhost mike]$

please help me

ifconfig is in the /sbin directory in Redhat. If you'e looking for a command an can't find it, look in the sbin directory or /usr/sbin. For example, you could list everything in /sbin that begins w/ "if" w/ the ls comand and a * wildcard marker after the if. Like this:

[bax@morbo bax]$ ls /sbin/if*
/sbin/ifcfg /sbin/ifdown /sbin/ifport /sbin/ifuser
/sbin/ifconfig /sbin/ifenslave /sbin/ifup

"please help me" We are already.

good point sorry about that ifconfig -a reads out:

eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr: 00:03:FF:F5:FF:FF
inet addr: 192.168.131.74 BCast: 192.168.131.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 METRIC:1
RX Packets: 3 Errors:0 Dropped:0 Overruns:0 Frame:0
TX Packets: 3 Errors:0 Dropped:0 Overruns:0 Carrier:0
Collisions:0 Txqueuelen:100

lo Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 METRIC:1
RX Packets: 72 Errors:0 Dropped:0 Overruns:0 Frame:0
TX Packets: 72 Errors:0 Dropped:0 Overruns:0 Carrier:0
Collisions:0 Txqueuelen:0

RX Bytes: 4964 TX Bytes: 4694

Where do you get your connectivity from? By that,I mean do you plug into a router or switch or directly into the cable modem?

A Linksys EtherFast 5 Port Switch

So is it like this:
cable modem---Linksys switch---your computer

Sure sounds like a router is somewhere in the mix. What happens when you run dig? Do you have any idea what your DNS and default gateway are supposed to be?

it is like what you said (modem----switch-----computer) and there is no router i am just clueless as to what information i will need to set up my ROGERS INTERNET On RedHat 8 so since rogers does not offer support i turn to the community for help (thank you for it) thus once knowing what information i need and how to implement it i can go to the company to find the information but they will not tell me how to set up for linux hence returning to the original question. thank you for your help so far bax i really appreciate it.

What's the output of $ netstat -rn
?

Kernel IP Routing Table


Destination Gateway Gen Mask Flags MSS Window Irtt Iface

192.168.131.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth0

127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 40 0 0 lo

0.0.0.0 192.168.131.254 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth0

Is it just your RedHat 9.0 computer on the network or are there more? Also, is your Linksys a router or just a hub? What I mean by that is does it have a DHCP server? It will say on the box. Try connecting directly from linux box to cable modem, like this:
linux box---------cable modem.
Use the cable that currently connects between your Linksys WAN port and your cable modem for that, if you can. Cycle power on the cable modem and restart the linux box, IN THAT ORDER. Then run ifconfig -a and post it's output. If I've been unclear in any way, please let me know!

there are 2 other xp machines and this one is a dual boot xp and redhat 8.0 i huess that it does have a dhcp server because all xp machines work perfect including the xp side of the dual boot box