Accessing the Internet on Fedora

[Collywobbles]

Hi,

I'm new to Linux and I've just installed Fedora 7 on my laptop. I'm now trying to connect to the internet but can't get it to work. The network is working (currently via an ethernet cable, but will want wireless later) as I can see my router by going to 192.168.1.1 in Firefox.

However, no internet access is available. Do I need to do anyting else after an install to get internet access working?

Thanks!
Collywobbles

[mnisay]

how are you connected anyway?

can you open a terminal and so

#ping 64.12.50.151

#ping google.com

and show us some results?

[sameeh]

Accessing the router via firefox means that Local LAN connectivity is OK...

1. Did you enter the default-gateway correct ?

2. Can you ping www.google.com via Hostname ?

cat /etc/resolv.conf

if nothing is there add the nameservers to the file

[Collywobbles]

I seem to able to ping web address successfully such as www.google.com, must be something to do with the browser?

[sameeh]

do u need to enter a proxy server or sumthing ?

[Collywobbles]

Originally Posted by sameeh

Accessing the router via firefox means that Local LAN connectivity is OK...

1. Did you enter the default-gateway correct ?

2. Can you ping www.google.com via Hostname ?

cat /etc/resolv.conf

if nothing is there add the nameservers to the file

resolv.conf contains my nameserver 192.168.1.1

[sameeh]

and by the way try brwosing after

service iptables stop

[Collywobbles]

Originally Posted by sameeh

and by the way try brwosing after

service iptables stop

Can you let me know where the is the service command is, it's not in my path

[sameeh]

you should be root to execute the command...

[Collywobbles]

Originally Posted by sameeh

you should be root to execute the command...

I switched to root, but still got a bash: service: 'command not found'

[sameeh]

as root:

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

[Collywobbles]

Originally Posted by sameeh

as root:

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

Okay, ran that but it's still timing out when I try a webpage

Flushing firewall rules: [OK]
Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter [OK]
Unloading iptables modules: [OK]

[sameeh]

tail /var/log/messages

and pase the results pls

[Collywobbles]

Originally Posted by sameeh

tail /var/log/messages

and pase the results pls

Output was....

Jun 28 23:10:21 localhost system-config-network[3184]: ln //etc/sysconfig/networking/devices//ifcfg-eth0 //etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles//default/ifcfg-eth0
Jun 28 23:10:21 localhost system-config-network[3184]: ln //etc/hosts //etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles//default/hosts
Jun 28 23:10:21 localhost system-config-network[3184]: ln //etc/resolv.conf //etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles//default/resolv.conf
Jun 28 23:24:50 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Jun 28 23:24:50 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Jun 28 23:24:50 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.4 -- renewal in 1510 seconds.
Jun 28 23:28:34 localhost yum-updatesd: error getting update info: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: fedora
Jun 28 23:42:00 localhost setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing access to files with the default label, default_t. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 7af8a4d7-ef6a-41c1-bb55-7c80132dc24a
Jun 28 23:49:19 localhost gconfd (root-3198): GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
Jun 28 23:49:20 localhost gconfd (root-3198): Exiting

[Hlingler]

Hmmmm...I'm no expert, but:

Jun 28 23:42:00 localhost setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing access to files with the default label, default_t. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l

The other error (yum-updatesd) may actually be a problem with the fedora server - try again later.