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by **zx300chri** » Sat, 12 Jun 1999 04:00:00

Hi, I just downloaded and installed Redhat 6.0. I erased 5.2 before doing
so, and now I can't connect to the internet with Linux, and I forget how I
set it up before. I have a Sony 735 vaio laptop with a Netgear Fa410tx
pcmcia network card. Last time, I just installed it as an ne2kpci card and
it gave me my IP numbers, and everything worked fine. I installed Linux a
couple of different ways, all to no avail in the network part. Here is what
I have done so far. Installed Linux with PCMCIA support in the very
beginning, asked me if I wanted to set up a LAN, and I said yes, but it
didn't ask me what I had for a card, so I'm assuming it auto-detected it.
The installation before, I didn't start with PCMCIA support, and when it
asked me if I wanted LAN support, it said it couldn't find the device. Upon
boot, there is a line that says DELAYING INTERFACE ETH0 [FAILED].
When I go to netconfig, it says eth0 active at boot, currently active. I
went to linuxconf, -> basic host options and specified the eth0 card that
showed up under adapter one as ne2kpci and set it as DHCP. Running ifconfig
brought me this screen

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:8C:DA:9B
inet addr:24.128.59.72 Bcast:24.128.59.255
Mask:255.255.254.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:90 errors:0 dropped: 0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interupt:3 Base address:0x300

lo Link ecap: Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 METRIC:1
RX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

After I start Netscape and hit home to get me to a page, two error messages
pop up. The first says
'Netscape unable to lacate the server home.netscape.com
Please check the server name and try again.'

and under that another message, something about $SOCKS_NS environment.

I'm not very adept with Linux yet, so any help would be greatly
apprectiated!! - Thanks - Chris

by **Andrew Crous** » Sun, 13 Jun 1999 04:00:00

Chris,

From the output of ifconfig, it looks like you are able to obtain an ip
address from the DHCP server. If your situation is like mine was, you just
are not able to find the nameserver. To see if this is the case, type an IP
NUMBER not a name into netscape and see if you get any results. If it works,
you could try putting the line

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

into the file /etc/resolv.conf

You could find a nameserver by using nslookup, but from your ifconfig results
you are on the same network that I am. So, you might try putting:

nameserver 24.128.60.8
nameserver 24.128.60.7

I'm no expert, and there is likely a much better solution, but perhaps it will
tide you over until you find a better way.

Yours,

Andrew

> Hi, I just downloaded and installed Redhat 6.0. I erased 5.2 before doing
> so, and now I can't connect to the internet with Linux, and I forget how I
> set it up before. I have a Sony 735 vaio laptop with a Netgear Fa410tx
> pcmcia network card. Last time, I just installed it as an ne2kpci card and
> it gave me my IP numbers, and everything worked fine. I installed Linux a
> couple of different ways, all to no avail in the network part. Here is what
> I have done so far. Installed Linux with PCMCIA support in the very
> beginning, asked me if I wanted to set up a LAN, and I said yes, but it
> didn't ask me what I had for a card, so I'm assuming it auto-detected it.
> The installation before, I didn't start with PCMCIA support, and when it
> asked me if I wanted LAN support, it said it couldn't find the device. Upon
> boot, there is a line that says DELAYING INTERFACE ETH0 [FAILED].
> When I go to netconfig, it says eth0 active at boot, currently active. I
> went to linuxconf, -> basic host options and specified the eth0 card that
> showed up under adapter one as ne2kpci and set it as DHCP. Running ifconfig
> brought me this screen

> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:8C:DA:9B
> inet addr:24.128.59.72 Bcast:24.128.59.255
> Mask:255.255.254.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:90 errors:0 dropped: 0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interupt:3 Base address:0x300

> lo Link ecap: Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 METRIC:1
> RX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

> After I start Netscape and hit home to get me to a page, two error messages
> pop up. The first says
> 'Netscape unable to lacate the server home.netscape.com
> Please check the server name and try again.'

> and under that another message, something about $SOCKS_NS environment.

> I'm not very adept with Linux yet, so any help would be greatly
> apprectiated!! - Thanks - Chris

by **Kenyon Ral** » Sun, 13 Jun 1999 04:00:00

> I'm no expert, and there is likely a much better solution, but perhaps it
> will tide you over until you find a better way.

Dhcp is supposed to supply the nameserver information. Since pump is the
dhcp client, the problem must lie somewhere therein. First I'd upgrade to
the latest pump package just in case that fixes the problem
(ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386/pump-0.6.7-1.i386.rpm, or use a mirror
from http://www.redhat.com/mirrors.html).

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