Can't Go Online Need Help

[johnficca]

trying to get online using eth0 and it keeps failling
I have a high speed cable connection and I'm running it from a switch box
can someone help me ?

[Nels664868]

Have you tried the Internet Configuration Wizard
in FC4 click on Applications >System Tools >Internet Configuration Wizard

this will walk you through setting up an internet connection

nels

[johnficca]

hey thanks but I'm running fedor core 5 and I can only run KDE not Gnome
as far as I can tell they don't have Internet Configuration Wizard

[fpoole]

hey thanks but I'm running fedor core 5 and I can only run KDE not Gnome
as far as I can tell they don't have Internet Configuration Wizard

K Menu -> Administration -> Network

I'm not sure if this is what was meant. :/

[johnficca]

Thanks for everyone's input, but for some reason I keep getting this error message:
determining IP information for the eth0 ...PING
192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) from 192.168.2.2 eth0
56(84) bytes of Data.

--- 192.168.2.1 ping statisticss ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received. +3 errors,
100% packet loss. time 2009ms
, pipe 3 failed

[Nels664868]

try this
1: at a root screen (Ctrl+Alt+F1) type:
ifconfig
you should see this
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:2F:5B:0F:EF
inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20b:2fff:fe5b:fef/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:20114647 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12309396 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1990949847 (1.8 GiB) TX bytes:3930144005 (3.6 GiB)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x8100

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2824520 (2.6 MiB) TX bytes:2824520 (2.6 MiB)


if not type
ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.2 up
(if there are more than one computers connected to that switch then change the last number to something higher)
2: type route
this should be printed
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

if not type
route add default gw 192.168.2.1 eth0
3: type ping 192.168.2.1

PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.257 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.273 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.250 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.261 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.251 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.232 ms

--- 192.168.2.1 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5014ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.232/0.254/0.273/0.012 ms, pipe 2

press Crtl+c to stop the ping
if you see 100% packet loss check your cables, many time the cable supplied with the cable modem is a crossover cablle(to go from modem to pc), to go from modem to switch or switch to pc a patch cable is needed.

nels