I just installed fedora core 6 and during the installation I told it to configure hostname, gateway, and ip through dhcp, but when I can't seem to connect to the internet. help?

my specs:
amd athlon 64 3000+ (939)
1 gig ddr400
EVGA 6600 GT
gigabyte GA-K8NF-9

Please post the output of ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:EA:C1:95:EC
inet addr:192.168.0.89 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:eaff:fec1:95ec/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3458 (3.3 KiB) TX bytes:8860 (8.6 KiB)
Interrupt:233 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1384 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1384 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3515112 (3.3 MiB) TX bytes:3515112 (3.3 MiB)


I think that the problem is here (inet addr:192.168.0.89 Bcast:192.168.0.255) and here (inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0)

How does one go about changing this?

It looks like you're getting the ip address without problem. I don't see anything there.

Can you output the post of:

route

-Josh-

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default dslmodem.domain 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

the gateway should be 192.168.0.1, how do I change it to that?

thankies

First do:

That will remove the current default gateway.

then,

to add the new gateway as default.

It looks like your ethernet adapter has two subnets assigned to it. I'm not sure if that could hurt the process or not. I would say you should also do a

It will remove the 169.254 subnet.

Try it without removing it first though.

-Josh-

I changed the default gateway to 192.168.0.1 and it worked for a few minutes then it died. When I tried to remove the 169.254 subnet it said it was not possilbe

Try pinging 192.168.0.1 (your router) if you can ping the router and the default route is still set to go through it then the problem may be with the router and not your machine. Try to also ping some host on the Internet by IP (e.g. 216.239.37.104 instead of google.com). If you can ping by IP but not name that means your DNS is screwed up.

Also, the correct syntax for deleting the 169.254 route is:

route del -net 169.254.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0

You must run this as root. If it does not work, please post the error message.