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Let me explain my situation. I have a Lucent Winmodem that I would like to use to connect to the internet through Red Hat Linux 8.0 with. I got drivers for it, and they work, now my modem is recognized. However, when I connect to the internet, I can't sign on to anything or go to any web sites. I called Earthlink, my ISP, and got there DNS server ips and that still didn't work. I have tried putting the ELN/ (or is it ELN\, I tried both) in front of my username. Throughout all of these steps I have searched the forums and such as to not ask already answered questions. I haven't fixed my problem and so here I am. I really want to be able to connect to the net through linux, because that is about the only reason I have to use windows. I really hope someone can help me.
mdwatts
08-09-2003, 02:11 PM
You have added the dns servers to /etc/resolv.conf
domain ISP_DOMAIN.COM
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # isp dns 1
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # isp dns 2
and have specified the correct gateway address?
Restarted networking after making the changes?
I added the dns servers through kppp. As for the gateway address, I didn't change it, and I have no idea how to (or what it is).
I have searched on the internet and I found a site with quite a few posts about inability to resolve. The site is
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/debian-user-199910/thrd2.html#00707
I did see something about how changing the gateway address to XXX.XXX.XXX.1 where the X's are your subnet (i'll have to figure that out...)
I am going to try these things and therefore I will have to sign off. I you post a reply I may not read it for awhile, unless of course, I can get Linux on the net.
mdwatts
08-09-2003, 03:12 PM
I believe Redhat has something like 'netconfig' or 'netcfg' for configuring the network settings.
su -
<root password>
netconfig
exit (to exit from su -)
Check to see if the dns servers are in fact in /etc/resolv.conf
cat /etc/resolv.conf
I checked out my resolv.conf file and believe it or not, there was NOTHING there. I will try to put the information in it and hopefully my next post will be from Linux.
That netconfig would work, but I also need to input an IP address and netmask, and I have no idea what to put there. I am going to try to manually put the info in resolv.conf
mdwatts
08-09-2003, 03:53 PM
Originally posted by smig
That netconfig would work, but I also need to input an IP address and netmask, and I have no idea what to put there. I am going to try to manually put the info in resolv.conf
Are you not using DHCP as most ISP's insist you use?
You should only need the dns servers and gateway addresses and the rest is taken care of by the dhcp client.
VICTORY AT LAST!!
I am on linux as I send you this message!
I put the info in the resolv.conf file, and it didn't work. I remebered about having to restart the networking stuff, so I rebooted and it worked. Thank you very much for all your help mdwatts!
mdwatts
08-09-2003, 04:27 PM
Glad we could help... Enjoy!!!