Install Internet connection on Red Hat 9.0

[ponderosa100]

If anyone acn help me on this matter I would appreciate it. I have installed Red Hat 9.0 and have a new D-link Ethernet card on the PC computer that hooks into a port that is connected to a main server with cable modem Internet access. I checked all of the wiring and it looks great. I followed the network configuration wizard and have set up the ethernet card and connection to the point where is says that it is "active" When I go to Mozilla Web Browser to get on the Internet it says it cannot find the site etc.

Any ideas on what I can check for next? I have it the connection set up to a static connection with a similar IP address and same netmask as other computes on XP and they work fine.

Thanks,

Roger

[saithan]

just to let you know......
you posted this to the wrong forum.

this might have gotten better responses if posted to linux networking topic.

anyways to help you out........

i'm willing to bet that you set the firewall to "high" during install.

if you baught the redhat9 box set there was mention of basic internet activity being blocked if the firewall is set to the high setting.

the problem is not in the firewall it self but rather in the initscripts.

here are the directions from redhat :
as root type:

lokkit -q --high

run the up2date and ungrade the initscripts.

not all sure that this is your issue, however it does give you an option to look into.

[bwkaz]

Can you browse by IP address? That is, if you type http://216.239.33.99 into the browser, do you get Google's homepage?

If so, then the problem is your DNS settings. Find out from another computer which IP addresses they're using for DNS, and put those into the /etc/resolv.conf file on your RH machine. It should look like:

nameserver aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
nameserver eee.fff.ggg.hhh

There can be other lines, too, if needed, but most of the time they're not. If they're there, then leave them.

[ponderosa100]

Hi, I tried to browse with the address numbers given but could not connect.

Roger

[ponderosa100]

Well- Eureka! The problem required was to configure the internet connection via Ethernet card to a NAT port with a static IP address and not a dynamic address. Once I got all of the device and other settings in agreement it started right up.

If you are new to Redhat Linux as I am -I can recommend "Red Hat Linux for Dummies" an 8 book compilation of step by step directions for Red Hat Linux. It is helping me.

Good Luck to All!

Roger

[gwpritch]

This sounds like a similar problem I'm having (maybe), How did you do what you did??

[ponderosa100]

I have a LAN with 3 computers tied in with cable. I went to computer # two to the c: prompt and typed in ipconfig which identifies the ip address and netmask and default gateway.

I then used that info to sep up the new linux machine that is only tied in to the multiport for internet access. The trick here is that each computer needs to have a separate ID at the en of the IP address. AS an example it one computer shows the ending IP address as.110 the next machine must have a separate identifier such as .115 or .120,

In the RED Hat configuration you must enter the data for these addresses in each of the areas wher the IP address is requested.

Also make sure that the hardware is hooked up and that the green light is on at your ethernet card showing green!

Godd luck to all!

Roger

[bwkaz]

Yes, IP addresses on a subnet do need to be unique... ;)