internet conncection problem
 

Hello people
I just instlled this Fedora Core 3 with seLinux enabled, i do have an ip address when I enter ifconfig -a it gives me inet ip address...but i can't get online...:( don't know why...the other thing is some commads such as ifconfig don't work with my own account not even when i use su root....so i have to logout and login to the root account and then it'll work..anbody knows why...do i have to add any line to the $PATH
thank you very much
Karan

For commands like ifconfig, these are superuser commands and are stored in a seperate directory that normal users don't have in their path. To get them to work when you superuser to root, use a minus sign (type su, a space and then the minus sign):

user@linux ~>$su -

Optionally, you can give the path to the system command, most are in /sbin so typing /sbin/ifconfig would run ifconfig.

Can you ping to the IP address assigned to your network interface? What is the output of ifconfig and route?