Fedora 5 LAN problem with WAN
Wolfgang Gill
wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Tue Aug 22 04:56:08 UTC 2006
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:50:53 -0500, Joe W. Byers wrote
> Wolfgang
>
> YOU DA MAN! Thank you very much. That was my problem. I never
> looked on that tab of my RHEL4 network configuration to compare with
> the Fedora 5.
>
> I am pleased with Fedora 5 but for the difficulties setting up the
> network. I hope this is mainly because of the old HP computer and
> non standard wireless usb adapter that is not supported or at least
> not shown to be used by ndiswrapper on their website. We will see
> especially when I have to upgrade my kernel and recompile ndiswrapper.
>
> Again, Thank you very much
>
> joe
>
> Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:46:24 -0500, Joe W. Byers wrote
> >> I appreciate your responses.
> >>
> >> I can access the the outside world from both my other computers: a
> >> XP system and a RHEL4 linux server.
> >>
> >> Using route -n I get the same results as is the output you list
> >> below. My linux server returns the last column as eth0 since it is
> >> connected through a cable.
> >>
> >> This happens with the F5 box whether or not I have the firewall
> >> running or WEP enabled on the router, or any combination of these.
> >>
> >> I feel like it is some small configuration problem because this HP
> >> machine worked fine with my network with Windows 98 running on it
> >> before I installed Fedora 5.
> >>
> >> I have tried the KDE wifiwireless and it tells me no signal trying
> >> to find my Network. I do not think this is correct because I have
> >> not moved the computer or the router and the wireless connection
> >> worked when W98 was on the machine. When I scan for networks it
> >> shows the networks in the neighborhood that I have seen before.
> >>
> >> If you tell what information might help us, I can pipe the command's
> >> results to a txt file and include them in a reply since I have samba
> >> working. I just do not know what I need to look at anymore.
> >>
> >> Thank you
> >>
> >> Andy Green wrote:
> >>> Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> My problem is that I can access all my computers from the HP and they
> >>>>> can access the HP, BUT I can not get outside my LAN.
> >>>> Sounds like the ISP's DNS addresses are missing.. Does the router forward
> >>> How about no default route is configured?
> >>>
> >>> route -n
> >>>
> >>> should have a line at the bottom marked up as UG, this is where your
> >>> machine sends packets if they don't match any of the other routes. Mine
> >>> looks like this for example, so 192.168.0.1 is the router that goes out
> >>> to the world
> >>>
> >>> # route -n
> >>> Kernel IP routing table
> >>> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> >>> Iface
> >>> 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
> >>> wlan0
> >>> 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0
> >>> wlan0
> >>> 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
> >>> wlan0
> >>>
> >>> -Andy
> >
> > Since your using KDE.. Goto the System folder and click on Netowrk Device
> > Control. Then click on configure.. And check the DNS tab, to see if there is
> > in fact a DNS server address(es) in there..
> >
> > As from what you mentioned, that the system can see all the other PC's on the
> > network and visa vera. So it only leaves whether it's getting a DNS server
> > address. Without it, you can't browse the internet. (Unless you have the IP
> > address of the webpage you need to access, and your internal web server is
> > either accessed via a direct IP address or NetBIOS name).
> >
> > I had the exact same problem on one system, and it was missing the DNS server
> > address(es), once I fixed that, I could access the internet again.. (As there
> > was a small glitch in the router which, wasn't forwarding the DNS Address when
> > the system requested an IP address.(Via DHCP). ). You could also insert it
> > manually, (By getting that info from a working system), and see if that
helps..
> >
> > Wolf
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>
No problem... Glad to be of help..
Wolf
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