With the great help of MasterC, I finally reached the promised land of the Linux environment. I wantd to get updates as prompted but i'm not getting an internet connection. The eth0 connection is enabled, and i have it set to static ip (as per the router settings), any time i bring up a webpage it says the page can't be found (soon as i enter it). AFter I made the changes I rebooted back into linux with no success.

Is there something I'm overlooking?

edit: I'm sorry, I should at least tell what kind of nic i have. It's onboard/integrated, 3com 3C920 Integrated Fast Ethernet controller (3C905C-TX compatible) -- this is listed in device manager windows

Thanx

pcdebb

well, if eth0 is enabled... show us the output of "ifconfig" and "route -n". And tell us what you are using to connect to the internet. And try a "dig google.com" and write the ouput here.

Have you setup a nameserver the file in Debian would be /etc/resolv.conf not sure what it is in RH. To check if it is a nameserver problem open a console window and ping 216.239.41.99 (Google) or enter the numeric address in a web browser if you can connect from either of them then you have to set it up properly and restart the networking.

ok i will check that, and someone mentioned if i had any name servers in etc/resolv.conf, what should be there?

This is what mine looks like:
The search line searches your domain and is not really necessary unless required by your ISP and you only need one nameserver line so it can look like this:

those look like internal ips, are you behind a router? i know my gateway is 192.168.0.1, so my nameserver is my computer?

is "wolf" the name of the computer i need to search? (of course I would not search wolf)

thanx

Your right 192 is usually a local ip.

I'm behind a router and Mines

search
nameserver 62.30.0.xxx
nameserver 195.188.53.xxx

I've blanked off the end cuz their my ISP DNS. You'll need the ones from your ISP.

ok cool. I will switch over now and see what I can make happen. (my end goal is to post from linux, verifying success)

thanx alot for your help so far. This forum is very very helpful to me :-)

Yes I am behind my own router for my home network but those address are on the subnet of my ISP so yes they are not routeable to the internet at large they run their own nameservers, wolf is the domain name that they use and for me anyway it is not necessary it works without the search line just as well as with it you would need the correct settings for your ISP and may not even need the search line. The nameservers IP comes from your ISP not your own computer you should be able to get the settings from windows IIRC using the run dialog for xp you would use [i]ipconfig[i] and win98 it would be winipcfg.

Success, I am now online in linux.

You guys here definitely get the blue ribbon for being so helpful. I can see I'm going to like it here

Welcome, You do realise their no going back?

WE HAVE HIM NOW HAaaahahahahaaa!

Haha, well there's always hope.

Oh, BTW, /me is female

Good! Even better! Theres to many men around here anyway.

right now it's slow going, I'm bookmarking places to help me with the simplest of things (such as installing an application). Give me time, and I may even forget what windows is haha

oh wow! A female geek! This is very rare, really
I hope you'll like linux.