Please,Help Me

[Henning Larsen]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 12:23 -0700, mohammed magraby wrote:
> 
> Dear MailMan, 
> 
> 
>           I have a proplem, I am using fedora 9 on 6 machines “Intel
> Core 2 Due 2.40GHz, 1 GB of RAM., and I have a problem connecting to
> the LAN and Internet. I am wondering if out of the box I need to do
> something for Fedora to be able to get on the Internet and LAN. 
> 
> 
> My network setup is as follows : 
> 
> 1 - Static IP to every machine 
> 
> 2 - I have 2 switches, the first is ASUS and the second is DLINK 
> 
> * All machines are unable to connect to the LAN 
> 
> * I just want to solve the problem on one machine with the following
> configuration : 
> 
> IP: 192.168.1.204 
> 
> SubNET Mask: 255.255.255.0 
> 
> GateWay: 192.168.1.1 
> 
> DNS: 192.168.1.1 
> 
> Static Host Name: Developer-3 
> 
> 
>       * Network card model is RealTek
>         
>       * I used Add/Remove Software to download The DeviceManager and I
>         think the “ Add/Remove Software” tool seems to go on the
>         internet and download the “DeviceManager” because the yellow
>         light on the Ethernet card lights up, however when press on
>         the Install button nothing happens. 
>         I made the network card status Activate, then I restarted the
>         computer, but always the symbol of the connection icon is”X”
>         and the message is “No network connection” 
>         I tried it on one machine that also has Windows XP together
>         with Fedora 9. From Win XP I am able to get on the LAN and the
>         Internet but not with Fedora 9, although I have the same
>         network configurations on both OSes.
>         
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
try to run ifconfig in a terminal window, there you can see if your
network card is up
if it is not, I would do system-config-network and edit the device and
select activate device when computer starts.

HTH