I'm having some problems connecting to the internet on my Fedora Core 5 machine. My connection comes into the PC by ethernet connection into the motherboard. We have a DSL connection that comes to a gateway. There is no problem with the connection from the computer to the gateway. I can access it and make changes. There is nothing wrong with the internet as I can use any other machine with that gateway. I hope I've given enough information. If you need to know anything more just ask and I'll get it to you. I would realy like to get this working ASAP. Thank You.

post the o/p of #cat /etc/resolv.conf

regards

Ok. I'm not sure exactly what o/p means. But I went and did "cat /etc/resolv.conf" and this was the output

; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search domain.actdsltmp
nameserver 192.168.0.1
nameserver 216.165.129.157

If thats not what your looking for then you'll need to explain more. If that is what your looking for. I'd kinda like to know what significance this is.

o/p : out put
i'm assuming that you have a DSL modem which is connected to the NIC of your machine.
How did you setup the internet connection ?
was it using "pppoe-setup" or something else ?
your /etc/resolv.conf is showing that you have assigned 192.168.0.1 IP address to your modem. Is it so ?

post the o/p of #route -n
and
#cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

regards

Gosh i'm stupid. Output, that makes sense. What I have is a modem/gateway. And my machine connects to that using an ethernet cable. The connection was set up when I installed fedora so I don't really know. Yes the address of my modem is 192.168.0.1

the o/p of route -n is as such
bash: route: command not found

and the o/p of the other is as this
# Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Device=etho0
Bootproto=dhcp
Hwaddr=00:14:85:BF:06:50
Onboot=yes
Usercntl=no
Peerdns=yes
Type=Ethernet


That should be it. Except the command that didn't work. I don't know about that one. But if I figure it out i'll post the O/p Of that.

hi,
what you do to connect to the internet ? i.e which application you run.
and can you ping your DNS server "nameserver 216.165.129.157"??
#ping 216.165.129.157

regards

I'm using firefox. And yes I can ping it.

I intended to ask the way you get the internet connection up.
e.g i use #pppoe-start / #adsl-start.
So what you do ?

regards

I also having the same problem when first FC5 installed, firefox can not access internet.

Primary and secondary DNS ip need to added in network->DNS settings or in /etc/resolv.conf

I didn't. When I installed the OS it did it automaticly.

I have both DNS ip's in their proper slots.


Edit.

HAHA. Well, I though I had the DNS ips in the right place. But I didn't. I went and put them in their proper slots. And it worked.

hi,
216.165.129.157. Isn't it your DNS ???
and what settings did you changed to make your internet connection work ?

regards

Yes. It is. What I did to fix it. I went to System>Administration>Network>DNS In there I noticed that my router was listed as the main DNS IP. I looked at my router, and figured out that wasn't the way it should be. So I pluged in the info my router gave me on DNS into the settings, and TA DA. Internet.

hi,
could you please post your current resolv.conf...
#cat /etc/resolv.conf

regards

; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search domain.actdsltmp
nameserver 216.165.129.157
nameserver 216.170.153.146

ok.
So you made changes in this file only ??? or somewhere else too.
b'coz initially the first entry was for your modem in /etc/resolv.conf but the second entry was for DNS. So your modems IP wasn't of any use there but your internet applications ( e.g broswer ) must have looked down for the second entry of DNS existing in the /etc/resolv.conf. In that case too you should have access to internet although a bit slower ( the time it waste looking the IP of modem).

regards