Hi, about the previous posting, it is all resolved by now and,
hopefully, i dont have to reenter Windows to access internet. The
problem was due to the netmask, since the gateway couldnt be reached
by netmask 255.255.255.0 but with 255.255.0.0. It's strange enough
though that in WinMe i had it working properly with the wrong netmask
but even not using automatic IP resolution, or dhcpd..
(E-Mail Removed) (Alexandre Netto) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> Hello,
>
> Firstly, let me say that my networking knowledge is about nule,
> needing advice on setting it up. The connection is made with a cental
> machine that allows me to access the internet through a gateway. It's
> not a ISP in the sense i've no email, etc. I've recently changed to
> Linux (~6 months), dont have much experience with it.
>
> Now to the problem, within WinME all i need to access the internet is
> setting my Ethernet Adapter to use TCP/IP and setting it by assigning
> a Fixed IP address and a netmask (e.g. 192.167.121.5 - 255.255.255.0)
> assigning the gateway (e.g. 192.167.1.1) and the DNS (2 IP numbers,
> the host (this one can be anything) and the domain).
>
> Now within Linux there's trouble configuring an ipv4 connection. The
> first day i could make connection sometimes using, strange enough,
> dhcpcd. But then it wouldn't work anymore all suddenly. So i tried to
> configure it with ifconfig and route. All that i tried didn't work,
> iam probably mistepping.. that is what i tried:
> ifconfig eth0 192.167.121.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
> 192.167.121.255
> the route command outputs:
> IP:192.167.121.0 GW: * ...
> i try to create a gateway with:
> route add default gw 192.167.1.1
> but then the message "Network unreachable".
> I tried also setting:
> route add -host 192.167.121.5
> but things dont work with it neither..
> resolv.conf has the 2 ip numbers, and hosts has my host and domain.
>
> I used linuxconf to set all networking parameters but all with no
> result.. Tried to install Webmin but it just dont work when i try to
> access it with Netscape or Konqueror (e.g.: "http://avbn2003:10000")
> -> page unreachable error.
>
> I am sure the hardware is all configured properly, i use an ethernet
> card provided within (onboard) a motherboard ASUS A7VX-X. The ethernet
> card is a VIA Rhine 10/100 Mbps, and loading its module was
> troubleless since the ASUS CD provides a linux driver for it (also it
> is already available in the 2.4.5 kernel), linux loads it and assigns
> an IRQ and HW address, ok.
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