no internet!!!what am i doing wrong??

havenoclu · 09-24-2001, 02:54 PM

hello.
i can't seem to get my internet to work w/ linux mandrake 8.0....internet is a MUST

....i have a 3com 3c90x nic card..the drivers seem to be installed...im using roadrunner, and have it set to dhcp...what am i doing wrong??...i noticed in the beginning, when its starting up everything...it always stops on eth0 (which is the nic)...does this mean the NIC is having trouble starting.....or what.. any help is appreciated..
thanks

jharris · 09-24-2001, 03:13 PM

A big pause might mean that you are not gettng an address from the DHCP server. After you have booted up - what do you get back from running ifconfig

cheers

Jamie....

havenoclu · 09-24-2001, 03:16 PM

when i put in "/sbin/ifconfig/eth0" here is what i get.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr blabla(mac addy)
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Inerrupt:11 Base address:0xd000
-------------------------------------------------------------------

as the smilies say, i am a newbie. so in helping me, please say everything in "newbie wording"

thanks!

jharris · 09-24-2001, 03:24 PM

It does look like you're not getting an IP address from RoadRunner's DHCP server (The DHCP server should give you a unique address when you ask for one, that is then assigned to your ethernet card). You should have something that looks like

Code:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:AD:40:A4:DA
          inet addr:62.30.76.27  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.192
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4442090 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:12
          TX packets:1699879 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:503 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xff80

Unfortunately, being UK based, I don't know anything about RoadRunner's service to give you any pointers. Hopefully someone else on the forum will know some oddities of their service that may be causing you problems.

Do you just have a single network card yeah? If so run

Code:

dhcpcd -d

from the command line and see if you get any error messages back.

cheers

Jamie...

havenoclu · 09-24-2001, 03:29 PM

i have 2 nics in this computer...one for network, and one for roadrunner....what do i do now?
thx A LOT for the help...very much appreciated

jharris · 09-24-2001, 03:34 PM

And both network cards are detected by the system yeah?? If you have eth0 setup as your LAN network card then try running

Code:

dhcpcd -d -i eth1

What happened when you tried to run it last time???

I recon that your DHCP daemon may be trying to get the address on the wrong network card.

cheers

Jamie...

havenoclu · 09-24-2001, 03:38 PM

thx a million!
i will try this right when i get home...(im sitting in network+ class right now.....)

havenoclu · 09-24-2001, 05:56 PM

well...the internets working right now (only because im running off a proxy server from another comp......for the time being) i have tried all that you said to, and still....nothing.....
thanks

jharris · 09-24-2001, 05:58 PM

Uhm... I was kinda expecting the results that you got from the dhcp command so we could carry on from there...

cheers

Jamie...

acid_kewpie · 09-24-2001, 06:00 PM

this couldn't just be because of a conflict of addresses between the two cards? do you know for definite that both cards are working? can you ping the machine one BOTH nic's from a remote machine?

jharris · 09-24-2001, 06:05 PM

acid_kewpie is a step ahead of me here...

Jamie...

acid_kewpie · 09-24-2001, 06:10 PM

Ahem... TRACTOR! :-D

(sorry! been listening to bob the builder too much)

So many times it seemed that i get stuck with something, and spend ages finding out if it is or isn't gonna ever work right, then a whole load of people seem to start getting the exact same problem... and i then get to try to look like a uberspod by knowing how to fix it!

havenoclu · 09-24-2001, 06:20 PM

hello..
here is what i get....no ip addy

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:02:69:CD:98
             BROADCAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1           
             RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0           
            TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0          
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:100           
            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:2360 (2.3 Kb)
            Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000

btw, is ctrl-c and ctrl-v still copy/paste in linux.??? (you can laugh...im a newb)

acid_kewpie · 09-24-2001, 06:25 PM

[no, cut/paste is different, as it should be really... drag over the text to copy, than go to where you want it and hit the third mouse button, or both together if it's only a 2btn mouse. it's a bit dumb having copy as ctrlC seeing as how that also means break. noticed how windows Telnet doesn't allow ctlC copying..?]

havenoclu · 09-24-2001, 06:51 PM

hmm....weird...

i went into gnome, and it got my internet right away....its using my proxy server (which assigns ip's via dhcp)....i had to manually input it for all the browsers w/ in kde.....it still cannot get an ip via eth0 (hooked up to cable modem)...