Cable Modem Woe's

[wm812]

I have @Home, I'm new to linux. I have just installed Mandrake 8.1 with no problems. But , now can't gain access to the internet. All, my hardware is detected . My ethernet card, is etho. I have set up the settings in the control center for my internet connection. Ip , address, gateway, Have also set it to dhcp , and to boot it dhcp. When , I go through the network and internet configuration. I select auto detect. And it detects a lan , with ethernet card detected. Then it comes up with ip address, and netmask. then automatic ip, so i press bootp/dhcp. Then hostname. Which is also correct. And i still cant gain access to the internet.
But the thing I dont understand is , i go back to the control center, where you can see the settings for etho, i clik on the connect button. I see sending speed and receiving speed, and activity. But i get the error cannot connect to internet.

plus when i run netscape, I get this error when trying to connect. Netscape Error:

Warning : following hosts are unknown.

This means that some or all hosts will be unreachable. Perhaps there is a problem with your name server. If your site must use a non-root name server, you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to point at the appropriate name server. It may or may not be necessary to set this variable, or the SOCKS host preference, to the IP address of the host in question rather than its name.
Please any help would be greatly appreciated.

[The Whizzard]

Is your network card setup as etho or eth0? It should be eth0. 0 = the number zero.

Also when you put in your hostname, are you using the name @home gave you? cr#####-# is about what your hostname should look like.

[ 03 November 2001: Message edited by: The Whizzard ]

[wm812]

Im sorry, its eth0, and my hostname is correct , I have used the one @Home has given me. which is C1626435-a.peoria1.il.home.com , I checked on the work order that was given me by the tech , when he came and connected me. Plus , I called to make sure , I had all of the correct info.

[scanez]

Can you connect using the ip? Here, put this in the netscape address bar

216.239.33.101

That's google's ip. If you can get there, then you probably have a dns problem. Add the address of your DNS servers to /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

for each DNS.

Hope this helps
SC

[wm812]

I went to that file, and the dns servers were already there. They are correct. And i couldnt connect to that ip address , that you told me to try and connect too.
:confused:

[thedexman]

what is the output from 'ifconfig' and 'route' ?

[wm812]

The output I got from ifconfig :
Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1935 (1.8 Kb) TX bytes:1935 (1.8 Kb)

The output I got from route:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination-127.0.0.0 Gateway- * Genmask-255.0.0.0
Flags-U Metric-0 Ref-0 Use-0 Iface-lo

This is what I got . Any help would be greatly appreciated.
:D

[bdg1983]

route add default gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx eth0

I believe it to be.

[wm812]

When I tried to :route add default gw 24.14.184.1 etho. I got SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable. :confused:

[subnet_rx]

something is up, you shouldn't just see a local loopback doing an ifconfig. It's not even seeing your eth0 card.

[bdg1983]

That's what I figured from the original post. I thought the ethernet card was detected and configured.

Apparently not...

Ok then (my favorite) try disabling PnP OS in your bios first and see what happens.

Have we found out what type of nic wm812 has? PCI, ISA etc. Is it on the Mandrake supported list for 8.1?

[wm812]

Well, the nic card is a smc2-1211TX . And when I go into harddrake . it is listed. Kernel Module: rt18139. Then if its not listed or detected, then why does it show up in my harddrake config. and why it shows up as eth0 , when I go into Mandrake Control Center, and go under network & internet. Under connection? Or when I go into, netconfig, it shows as adapter1. And it gives me my hostname ip address, netmask , net device and other info.
I have all the signs of it being there, and when i boot, or reboot. I get no errors , for eth0.
Still :confused:

[wm812]

Sorry , the card is PCI.

[bdg1983]

Yes, but ifconfig only shows lo while it should show both lo and eth0.

[wm812]

Ok, was just wondering what I was doing wrong, or not doing correctly. Is there anything else I can do , to possibly correct what is wrong. And to be able to get connected on the internet with linux? Still, trying.

[wm812]

I want to thank , everyone for their help. I finally got it working. I went into network configurator, then under Host name and Ip network devices. Then into adaptor1, then went down to line, Kernel module. It was set to realtek, and i changed it to smc-ultra. Then accepted it. Then went to netscape communicator. And got online.
:D

[bdg1983]

Good work. Keep trying and ye shall fix it.