eddiewowen
04-14-2001, 02:30 AM
I think i'm on the right track but it still isn't working. I'm using earthlink Mandrake 8.0 and the roaring pinguin software. I pinged eth0 with 127.0.0.1 and 1.1.1.1 and got pings so my NIC is working right? I connected with the gui for the roaring pinguin and the green lights came on in the window saying i was connected. I tried to ping 205.162.184.2 which i saw on another thread yahoo or something i think. No luck. I have the DNS set up to specify with the DNS i got from the earthlink tech guy but he said i shouldn't really need to specify it. I tried both ways with still no luck.
Any other suggestioins?
thanks
ds801
04-14-2001, 09:15 AM
First off, Mandrake 8 is BETA software, and everyone knows that beta means buggy.
Anyway, if Roaring Penguin is installed and can connect to your ISP, when you open a terminal window and type
ifconfig [enter]
you should see three interfaces listed, the loopback, eth0, and ppp0. ppp0 is the "dial-up" interface that RP creates when it connects to your ISP, and you should see the IP they assigned you.
Depending on how RP is setup, you may need to start it manually. I've never used the GUI they have now, but the text commands should still work, which are adsl-start, and adsl-stop (If I remember right...)
Once the ppp0 interface is running, try pinging your ISP's DNS server (since you know the IP, and you know that it will be there!), If that works, try pinging some web sites, like www.abc.com (http://www.abc.com) , or www.linuxnewbie.org (http://www.linuxnewbie.org) . If that works, you should be all set.
Dylan
04-14-2001, 05:25 PM
I never use programs like netcfg etc to set up my network connection. See my post in the post that was on the first page at the time i posted this -network problems-
eddiewowen
04-16-2001, 12:45 AM
Hey its working! I found this command in a README file from the pppoe software i downloaded from earthlink. ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up -arp . Does anybody know what that does?
camelrider
04-16-2001, 03:13 AM
It brings up eth0 without an IP address. That will be assigned by your ISP using the rp-ppoe software unless they gave you a static IP which is rare these days.
If you pre-assign an IP to eth0 it interferes with the pppoe software.