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Trouble with Zenwalk core internet connection setup

Hi there,

I've put together a little box to test parallel port devices as my laptop doesn't have one. It's a 233MHz with 266Mb ram and I have successfully installed Zenwalk Core 4.2.

I want to connect to the internet through our home network. We have an ADSL modem (D-Link 302G) plugged into a hub, and cables coming out of the hub running to each computer.
On my other machines I beleive I just use DHCP and it automatically works, or I set the ip of the computers to 10.1.1.*. My hub(or modem I guess) is 10.1.1.1. For example the windows box I'm on now ifconfig gives:

Code:

IP Address: 10.1.1.3

Subnet Mask: 255.0.0.0

Default Gateway: 10.1.1.1

I've spent a while fiddling with networkconfig and netconfig in Zenwalk. I've got to the stage when I can ping and be punged by other computers on the network (10.1.1.3 etc) but when I try to ping http://www.google.com or anything else along those lines it just gives me the ol' "destination host unreachable".
The current configuration is:

Code:

Hostname: abox

Domain name: mshome

IP Address: 10.1.1.9

Netmask: 255.0.0.0

Gateway: 10.1.1.1

Pleeeease help me out anybody! I've been trying different things for days with no luck and I really want to start installing software! (need to use netpkg)

Cheers,
Austin.

What does you /etc/resolv.conf say? It should be something like:

Code:

nameserver your.router's.ip.here

or point to another dns provider but my router's ip is what I usually use.

My /etc/resolv.conf said

Code:

search mshome

I changed it to

Code:

nameserver 10.1.1.1

as you suggested but it doesn't seem to have helped.

I'm not sure what I'm meant to set for my domainname? just my router IP?

If you really want to be sure, you can try dns server from opendns.org

Hi again,

Guth, I'm just checking out OpenDNS but I don't think that will solve my problem, as I can't ping www.google.com, nor can I ping the IP of www.google.com when I get it off a different computer.

Does it matter what I set domainname to? Theres no way for me to set a domainname on my modem/router.

I can't understand what I'm doing wrong. :S

the idea about modifying your nameserver is to avoid dns problems, but if you tried with an IP already ....

What if you tick all three "Use DHCP" boxes in xnetconf?

Hey thanks everyone,

It just ended up working the next time I restarted, just keeping the same settings initially described. I could ping googles ip straight away, but the DNS wasn't working so I entered the ips from the website Guth described into my resolv.conf and it's all go, I can netpkg and browse with lynx happily!

Cheers,
Austin.