On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:50:53 -0500, Joe W. Byers wrote > Wolfgang > > YOU DA MAN! Thank you very much. That was my problem. I never > looked on that tab of my RHEL4 network configuration to compare with > the Fedora 5. > > I am pleased with Fedora 5 but for the difficulties setting up the > network. I hope this is mainly because of the old HP computer and > non standard wireless usb adapter that is not supported or at least > not shown to be used by ndiswrapper on their website. We will see > especially when I have to upgrade my kernel and recompile ndiswrapper. > > Again, Thank you very much > > joe > > Wolfgang Gill wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:46:24 -0500, Joe W. Byers wrote > >> I appreciate your responses. > >> > >> I can access the the outside world from both my other computers: a > >> XP system and a RHEL4 linux server. > >> > >> Using route -n I get the same results as is the output you list > >> below. My linux server returns the last column as eth0 since it is > >> connected through a cable. > >> > >> This happens with the F5 box whether or not I have the firewall > >> running or WEP enabled on the router, or any combination of these. > >> > >> I feel like it is some small configuration problem because this HP > >> machine worked fine with my network with Windows 98 running on it > >> before I installed Fedora 5. > >> > >> I have tried the KDE wifiwireless and it tells me no signal trying > >> to find my Network. I do not think this is correct because I have > >> not moved the computer or the router and the wireless connection > >> worked when W98 was on the machine. When I scan for networks it > >> shows the networks in the neighborhood that I have seen before. > >> > >> If you tell what information might help us, I can pipe the command's > >> results to a txt file and include them in a reply since I have samba > >> working. I just do not know what I need to look at anymore. > >> > >> Thank you > >> > >> Andy Green wrote: > >>> Wolfgang Gill wrote: > >>> > >>>>> My problem is that I can access all my computers from the HP and they > >>>>> can access the HP, BUT I can not get outside my LAN. > >>>> Sounds like the ISP's DNS addresses are missing.. Does the router forward > >>> How about no default route is configured? > >>> > >>> route -n > >>> > >>> should have a line at the bottom marked up as UG, this is where your > >>> machine sends packets if they don't match any of the other routes. Mine > >>> looks like this for example, so 192.168.0.1 is the router that goes out > >>> to the world > >>> > >>> # route -n > >>> Kernel IP routing table > >>> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > >>> Iface > >>> 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > >>> wlan0 > >>> 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 > >>> wlan0 > >>> 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 > >>> wlan0 > >>> > >>> -Andy > > > > Since your using KDE.. Goto the System folder and click on Netowrk Device > > Control. Then click on configure.. And check the DNS tab, to see if there is > > in fact a DNS server address(es) in there.. > > > > As from what you mentioned, that the system can see all the other PC's on the > > network and visa vera. So it only leaves whether it's getting a DNS server > > address. Without it, you can't browse the internet. (Unless you have the IP > > address of the webpage you need to access, and your internal web server is > > either accessed via a direct IP address or NetBIOS name). > > > > I had the exact same problem on one system, and it was missing the DNS server > > address(es), once I fixed that, I could access the internet again.. (As there > > was a small glitch in the router which, wasn't forwarding the DNS Address when > > the system requested an IP address.(Via DHCP). ). You could also insert it > > manually, (By getting that info from a working system), and see if that helps.. > > > > Wolf > > -- > > Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > > > > No problem... Glad to be of help.. Wolf -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
