I have just installed Fedora Core 4 on my laptop. The install works fine except that i have no internet. My laptop is equiped with a wifi and an ethernet, however in the hardware browser there is only one displayed. when i go to configure the network, it cannot obtain an ip from my router. the router is cloning the mac addy of the laptop. the laptop is also dual booted with xp. the network works fine in windows. could the wireless be interfering with the ethernet? Please help, i want to learn how to use linux but it is very painstaking to have to restart the comp to look something up on the net.

ok, firstley are you using the wi-fi card or or a rj45 network card with linux? if its wi-fi chances are that you dont have the driver module installed. make sure you have the driver installed. if you do...

once the computer is booted open a terminal and type:

"ifconfig eth0 inet 192.168.1.1 up"

replacing the ipaddress with the one you want to assign to your machine.

then ping yourself to make sure the interface is up

"ping localhost"

if it is up you will need to configure routing and nameserver lookup:

"route add default gw 192.168.1.1"

exchanging the ip for that of your gateway or router.

next you need to add a line to your /etc/resolve.conf file

"echo "nameserver 192.168.1.1" > /etc/resolve.conf"

again replacing the ipaddress with that of your router or dns server

this should get the internet up and running.

However I think it is a driver issue as i believe fedora has a startup script to enable the network interface card.