I hope this is the right forum for this post, if not, I beg your forgiveness and ask the moderators to place this where it belongs.

Background:

LinuxPPC running on a 9600 dual booted with OS 9. The computer has 128 megs of ram.

I have a Linksys Etherfast 4-port Router thats connected to my ADSL modem provided to me by pacbell, which uses PPPoE to assign IPs to their clients.

Problem:

I am trying to get this machine connected online, I have gone to Network Configuration and entered what I believe to be the right settings. I have selected eth0 as the interface, and DCHP as the protocol to use. I have entered the Domain Name Servers under that tab, and have set the eth0 interface to enable at startup.

As far as I can tell, everything *should* be working, but isnt.

So I ask of anyone here to please guide me in the right direction as to fixing this problem please.

P.S.: This is my first post on this board, and Im very new to Linux (but have experimented a little on shells.)

Thanks in Advance for any and all help you can provide.

-ISAM

also forgot to add it says this when i login as root:

"Couldnt look up internet address for linux. This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly.It may be possible to correct the problem by adding linux to the file /etc/hosts."

another bit of info that might help:

during boot it says:

Bringing up the interface eth0 Determining IP information for Eth0……failed. ./ifup: /sbin/pump : No such file or directory found

I got around this by using DHCP from the router out, then using static IPs behind the router and putting that IP into /etc/hosts
eg.
192.168.1.2 mylinuxbox

hth
/js

thanks for the response, but i managed to go to the open projects irc server and to one of the linux channels there and someone managed to walk me thorough the fix to the problem i was having.

basically the way i solved it was by entering all the details manually into the network config thing and selecting <none> as the protocol rather then DHCP.

seems to work great so far.

thanks again for your response