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I'm new with Linux and I have my first problem, I hope someone can help me.
I have Mandrake 10.1 installed and I've configured the network card with the right IPs, but it's not working.
I can ping the gateway and the DNS, but I can't navigate on Internet, after waiting a few minutes, a time out message comes.
The card is onboard RTL 8139. My IP is 82.208.150.85, Gateway is 82.208.150.81 and DNS 194.102.130.1 and 2.
Here are some informations about the configuration:
Thank you for the tip, unfortunatelly it doesn't work!!!
But I noticed something else:
1. I can also ping a name (like google or yahoo.com)
2. I can see in Mozilla in the status bar it is saying "Resolving host www.google.com" and then "Connecting to host" and after a few minutes time-out. It means the DNS is reached and it's working...but it doesn't make anything else
3. This is strange to me... when I restart the PC in Windows 2000 after using Linux, the network card isn't working any more! I mean, everything seems to be ok, no fail mesage, but ping is not working and nothing else! No matter what I did, it was not working anymore. The only solution I found is to turn off the pc and unplug the power cable and let it like this a few seconds. This is strange to me....
I've had a similar problem before which was caused by the DHCP config. It sounds like you've configured your IPs statically tho.
How are you connecting to the Internet? Is your gateway an ADSL router or something? When I had this issue it was to do with the DNS suffix being wrong. Check this with your ISP.
Also check you're not trying tp use a proxy or anything in your mozilla config. Try another browser and see what happens.
This may be simplistic but your DNS server is on a class C address and your gateway and ip is on a class b address.make everything on either class B or A address.
Originally posted by tonyr321 This may be simplistic but your DNS server is on a class C address and your gateway and ip is on a class b address.make everything on either class B or A address.
I'm not sure this would make any difference. Subnet masks should be provided by the ISP since they will most likely be using classless IP.
"This is strange to me... when I restart the PC in Windows 2000 after using Linux, the network card isn't working any more! I mean, everything seems to be ok, no fail mesage, but ping is not working and nothing else! No matter what I did, it was not working anymore. The only solution I found is to turn off the pc and unplug the power cable and let it like this a few seconds. This is strange to me...."
This caught my eye. I have seen some network cards hold their setting for eternity, not allowing you to actually change anything whatever. Power off and unplug your computer, clear your BIOS(remove the battery for 3 minutes), and then power the thing back up. Entertain doing a BIOS update and also getting another ethernet card. I have seen this probolem with crap cards on a crap motherboard.
I've seen a similar problem in the past. I had similar symptoms; everything "seemed" to be good, but I still couldn't get on the web. Thoreau's suggestion is similar to what I did. It's been a while but if I remember correctly, I cleared my bios and it worked fine after that.
I actually remember this from 1993, when I first started using linux on shit hardware. It literally stumped me for weeks. I was using the tulip driver on a DEC 21040 chipset and it just held the setting. I had to throw away the card and upgrade my motherboard bios- maybe even had to throw that away to.. I forget.
All I know, is that this was probably the worst experience I had with linux. I was using slackware at the time, because nothing else was really out yet. In any case- yeah, this was a linux nightmare scenario. No reason. No rhyme. It just held the settings, lied to you about them, and then was dead from then on. Not fun at all.
About not being able to on the web: I'm using the same static IP and Gatweay, DNS and Mask in Windows, and no problem there... Does anyone know about settings that work in Windows and not in Linux??? Of course I tried other programs than Mozilla (without proxy, direct connection to internet), but with the same result.
You must have missed the whole conversation we just had. Everything's not fine, or else you wouldn't still be here. Toss the NIC card out and put in a new one. Try again.
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