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I am posting this again with updated info as I receive the
daily digest of mail and am not sure how to reply. I replied to two different
people replying to my request for assistance and neither reply got through. I
cut and paste the line in the digest mentioning the "Re: threadname" and
"(posters)" name but that did seem to work. Any help with that would be of
additional assistance.
I am running a Gigagbyte GA8S661FXMP-RZ Motherboard with 1 GB
memory installed. It is a dual processor motherboard but I am only running one
1xP4 2.4 GHz CPU. I have 2 IDE drives (first in line) and one SATA drive
where I have both XP and Fedora 7 installed. There are 3 partitions on the SATA
drive: the first one for XP, the second for storage and the third for Linux. I
have a Radeon 9800 pro Video card and a Viewsonic VG2021m LCD monitor. I am
having no problems whatsoever with sound or video.......I just can't get the
internet working. My adaptor is a SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adaptor - Packet
Scheduler Miniport, type, ethernet-csmacd, 100 Mbps. I have tried everything to
get Linux hooked up to the internet.....I tried setting the eth0 to DHCP, BootP
and Dialup, I tried changing the IP, Gateway and subnet masks from the values
provided to me by my ISP (even though they are only needed for static IP's (and
mine is dynamic) to "server"......and on and on and on...I cannot get eth0 to
activate and so I am not even yet here mentioning whether my ADSL connection
will activate or is setup right as it is my assumption that if eth0 doesn't
activate, neither will ADSL. I would sure appreciate any and all help. I am
admittedly a newbie to Linux although I have tried installing it on several
occasions alongside windows in the past, I have never really reached out for
help with failed installs and just abandoned them. This is as far as I have ever
got and I am anxious to make it work. Sound, video and everything are working
just can't get hooked up to the internet which is my primary reason for wanting
to run Linux.
Cheers
Joseph
is your connection a PPoE or a PPoA?? I assume that is PPoE.
If so, you have to configure ppp separately by the Ethernet card and activate pppd... Hope it can help... -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag Thanks for the info about configuring PPoE but that
is what I need to establish the connection to my ISP and I think I have that
part worked out. I just can't seem to get my ethernet card to talk to my modem.
Thanks again
Joseph Long
What is your hardware configuration? You don't
mention an ADSL modem/router anywhere. You can't plug an Ethernet adaptor into an
ADSL socket (well, you probably can physically...). You need a modem to
connect to your ISP over ADSL, and to route between ADSL and Ethernet.
Your Linux box should connect to the ADSL router, and most likely get
its IP settings from that using DHCP. --
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : nmw ion le ac uk
Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
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