Right,

I have set up REDHAT 8.0 on my system, which uses a ADSL Router and D-LINK ethernet card. I have run Internet connection wizard a thousand times and despite all the different configurations i have tried..the damned thing will not connect to the net!!!!! I have used the dhcp options etc. and all i get is one of two things happening:
i) instant error, "www.blahblah.com could not be found..or..
ii) the "resolving "www.blahblah.com" " which goes on indefinately...causing the system to grind (almost) to a halt...

strange thing is...and why i am begging to think it's hardware is because the same thing happens whether i connect the ADSL line to the socket or not...it's as if the system never goes as far as sending information out...it even reports (in the bottom of the browser) that i am on line.....

I AM A LINUX NOOB so please forgive my stupdity..! :-)

type 'ifconfig' in a console window. Post results.

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5D:6A:42:33
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:1912 (1.8 Kb) TX bytes:2122 (2.0 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:700 (700.0 b) TX bytes:700 (700.0 b)


this is what i got....

Looks like you've got a static (private) IP. You need a DHCP client to start up when you boot. I'm not sure which one RH8 uses - dhcpcd or pump.

Try (as root) 'dhcpcd eth0'

a friend of mine told me to make sure pump is installed...how do i install pump????

First see if you have 'pump' already installed. If not... I have no idea what RedHat is using for a package tool these days.

Any RH fans around???

i tried the ifdown eth0 command,
followed by ifup eth0; worked ok...then it said insufficient command or something...as if i was missing something out....any ideas?

Try a traceroute to some ip of your choice. It doesn't actually matter whether the ip is assigned or not. If your connection works, you'll see the route to that particular ip. If this works, you might need to add the dns server address of your isp in resolv.conf. This did it for me. AND, check that you have read access to resolv.conf. If you don't, root can ping www.google.ch, but as user, you cannot...
Hope it helps

From RH 8.0 onwards, they've started using dhcient.

It shows in the ps listing as:
/sbin/dhclient -1 -q -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases \
-pf /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid -cf /etc/dhclient.conf

If all you need to do is to enable dhcp in RH 8.0
save the last 3 lines as your
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes


You may want to change the yes against ONBOOT to no, I'm not familiar with how ADSL works.

now you may run:
/sbin/service network restart

cheers for that...i will try it and see how it goes