internet connection lost after yum update in FC5

[tr3s]

hi! for some reason, internet connection is lost after i updated all packages in yum. ifconfig displays the correct entries. where should i start to test and fix. tnx

no problem when im in windows...

[fchanMSI]

I had the same thing here. I installed from CD then updated using Package Updater. After the Package Update was done updating then it asked me to reboot and then I cannot connect using port 80 to anything. I can ping the sites various sites (ie www.yahoo.com. www.google.com, www.redhat.com) but I cannot run Package Updater and view many websites via Firefox. I can see Google and SBC/ATT which was in a bug report 199753. I cannot view yahoo, redhat, fedora.redhat.com and all I get is and spinning dots icon and it eventually tells that is times out.

[tr3s]

i already figured out the problem. the eth0 (Realtek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet) is the one messed up since i cannot make it to work even in pinging the LAN. i already tried to remove and add the device with no result.

please help in troubleshooting. this is not a hardware problem since the nic is working fine in windows.

tnx again

[fchanMSI]

Even thorugh it is installed make sure that it is active and has an valid IP address, subnet mask and gateway for it to work correctly. First try to ping yourself via the loopback (ie ping 127.0.0.1) to see if your network device and OS are talking to each other. If not then check if you can see your device in "Hardware Device" and see if there is a MAC address. If not, do an probe to look for it and it should see it. If not, then you may need to get update device driver because the device driver doesn't want to connect to the hardware device.
I have no problem pinging system on the network but I am having problem linking to many websites like redhat.com, yahoo.com so I do have an weird problem that was brought about by this update to 2.6.17-1.2187_FC. Before I had no problem with getting to any website and updating.

[steve_hepburn]

Hi
had a similar problem and seemed to be due to ipv6 being enabled.
to disable in firefox type config:about in the address window and then fillter on ipv6. Change to disabled.
I also added
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
to /etc/modprobe.conf file

Seemed to work for me so good luck

Steve

[IPI]

i am in the same boat, i just updated the systerm using yum update, and updated to the new kernel, 2.6.17-1.2187_FC, and my wireless doesn't work... the driver is installed , ndiswrapper -l shows the driver present, hardware working.... but can't enable it... i haven't checked my Realtek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet which is my wired card, but my wireless is down under new kernel. so i have to login to the older kernel to make it work.... anyone else is having problem with wireless shutdown under new kernel update? any idea how to get it back to work? i might try to load the driver again... and check to see if even the wired nic card works or not... my wireless doesn't pickup anything.. basically i can't enable it at all ...

PS. i'll post an update here if i get it to work, for others dealing with the same problem.

[fchanMSI]

I have an old cobbled together VA Linux machine that has two DEC network cards. Again they worked fine as installed from CD FC5 2.6.15 but when I used Package Updater to update the system to 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 then I couldn't connect via web browser or use Package Updater. I do an netstat I can see the connections establish but there is no network traffic and I can ping all of these sites with normal response times. I'll try Steve Hepburn suggestion about disable ipv6 on firefox and /etc/modprobe.conf.