marooned : No Net Connection

gtgoku · 04-15-2005, 08:48 PM

My System Restarted abruntly due to my Ineffecient UPS when there was power outage. And after this I am unable to access the Net from Linux, though am able to do so from windows.

I have tried netconfig several times

I have a Globespan Vitara ADSL Router and a RTL8139 eternet card.

I am also unable to access the router configuration page (192.168.1.1)

Some one please help me.

jimdaworm · 04-15-2005, 11:33 PM

What does ifconfig say?

gtgoku · 04-16-2005, 12:13 AM

ifconfig says

Code:

bash-3.00# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 4C:00:10:69:18:EB
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0xbc00

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

gtgoku · 04-16-2005, 02:10 AM

This problem is really killing me. After several reboots and 'netconfig' I am able to access my router config page at 192.168.1.1 and the apache page comes up at 192.168.1.3

Also iam able to log into skype but am not able to use gaim, bittorrent or broswse.

but nothing else works some one please help me.

gtgoku · 04-16-2005, 04:14 AM

I managed to reolve the problem. It was a DNS problem

i added

Code:

nameserver <my DNS addr>

to /etc/resolv.conf

and now everything is back to normal, but i wonder, why did such a stange thing happen
and also why did't netconfig correct this error though it asks for my DNS addres

jimdaworm · 04-16-2005, 06:22 PM

I am glad you got it working

I hear you about the netconfig. I had a similar problem that for some reason it wouldn't update stuff my network settings except if I was to set it to dhcp... very strange.

I gave up using netconfig and just edited my config maually like you have.

I wonder if netconfig or somthing else has a bug in it.