I'm a newbie to Linux, just installed Fedora 9 on my HP laptop, which already has Windows XP running on it. I live in my college hostel, there's a Proxy server (172.16.10.10, needs Authentication as well) for internet access. The first day I installed Fedora, internet was working just fine on Mozilla, and I was getting a ping reply from the server 172.16.10.10. But since the next day, the net is not working. Ping shows Destination Host Unreachable when pinged to 172.16.10.10 from the Terminal. I don't know what to do, where to start troubleshooting. Please help, as eventually I would like to shift completely to Linux, and leave Windows.

Your ip is probably not set.
See that using
use this to setup your ip.
If DHCP is enabled, do a
If the connection is wired, that is.

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where do i do these commands?? since i'm new to this, i dunno where to run these commands (ipconfig -a ; system-config-network ; dhclient eh0). SHould i try them on the Terminal?

Yeah, in terminal (as root)

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