FC5 networking question, emachines t3418
Joao Batista Gomes de Freitas
boaojatista at gmail.com
Mon Jun 26 02:45:46 UTC 2006
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:49:15 -0500
> From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>
> Subject: Re: FC5 networking question, emachines t3418
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <449ECC9B.8070507 at infinity-ltd.com>
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> Peter Horst wrote:
> > I am unable to get a new eMachine t3418 running FC-5 onto a home network
> > with a Belkin Pre-N wireless router. I am connecting it via one of the
> > Belkin's 4 CAT5 ports, not via the wireless. The Belkin provides NAT
> > and DHCP at 192.168.2.1. I now have a XP Pro laptop connected via
> > wireless and a second FC-5 machine, an old PII-450. The eMachine in
> > question is not running X Windows.
> >
> > I had asked earlier on this list and the group kindly advised me to try
> > a few things for diagnostic purposes, so here's some (somewhat
> > abbreviated) output. I should mention that I talked to Belkin and they
> > suggested assigning the eMachine an IP address, so I edited
> > /etc/sysconfig/network, which didn't make the slightest difference.
> > Either way, the machine gives me: "Determining IP information for
> > eth0...failed."
> >
> > Anything jump out here?
> >
> > Thanks for any assistance...
> >
> > ---------------------------------------
> > # /sbin/ethtool eth0
> > Settings for eth0:
> > Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
> > Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
> > Auto-negotiation: on
> > Link detected: yes
> >
> > # dmesg | tail
> > NET: Registered protocol family 10
> > lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> > IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
> > eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> >
> > # /sbin/ifconfig eth0
> > RX packets: 28 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0
> > TX packets: 0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0
> > RX bytes:3496 (3.4 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> > Interrupt: 17 Base address: 0xc000
> >
> > # cat resolv.conf
> >
> > # cat /etc/hosts
> > 127.0.0.1 obtunded localhost.localdomain localhost
> > 192.168.2.123 obtunded
> >
> > # /bin/netstat -rn
> > 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0
> > lo
> >
> > # cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> > NETWORKING=yes
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > HOSTNAME=obtunded
> > IPADDR=192.168.2.123
> > NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> > GATEWAY=192.168.2.1
> > GATEWAYDEV=eth0
> >
> There are a couple of problems here. Probably the biggest is that
> you do not have any name server in /etc/resolv.conf. There are a
> couple of ways to fix this. You can ether set the computer up to use
> dhcp to get its information, or you can edit /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> Try editing /etc/resov.conf - put in:
>
> nameserver 192.168.2.1
>
>
> If that does not work, let us know and we can tell you how to set up
> the interface to use DHCP instead. (This is probably how Windows is
> set up...)
>
> Mikkel
> --
>
> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
> for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
>
>
>
I would make sure eth0 is working properly before try to set DHCP. Use
static settings. ifconfig will do the job or you can use
System->Administration->network as well. When you get everything fine,
check your DHCP server.
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