Im out of my wits here....tried everything...i know im doing somethng wrong or missing somethng...I wud really appreciate if someone cud respnd asap...I have to get this working in the shortest possible time...thanx

DNV

and what exactly are we going to be helping with?

u should describe what the problem ur facing and also give details of ur setup then someone here can help u out. Pls also type a proper topic for ur question so that it is easier for everyone to find a similar question e.g nic problem : how to find driver

My Setup is as follows:

Dualboot Acer laptop with windows xp and red hat linux and with broadband connection.Able to connect to internet in win xp..Not from linux...getting the error:network unreachable .I tried the ifconfig -a command and brught up the ethernet interface and assigned the ip,subnet mask and te gateway to it.Did this with the gui tool and also the netconfig command and restarted the network daemons..But,still the same error.Able to ping the name server or the gateway...but,not able to ping the external sites or internet..its a standalone system at home...also checked the network and hosts related files ..I seem to be goofing up somewhere....

thanks for the reply Zamri

DNV

what does
give you?

First & foremost have you entered your DNS ips in /etc/resolv.conf ?