Yet another 'I can't connect' thread

**arabic58** · 02-04-2006, 05:06 PM

Thank you for not castigating me for rambling too much. Reading through his original post again., and again. He has a DSL ISP bridge piece of hard ware from the telephone wire out of the wall and then, he has a linksys combination router, firewall and 4 port switch. ?????

Do this. From a web browser Log into the linksys router. Check the settings in the router,Linksys, make sure the router has a good IP from the DSL ISP, and then PING at the router, or ping from the router, or go to the section in the router set up where it says to test internet connection and it has the ability to send a ping to an IP address.

The Link sys is either getting a good IP address or not.????? The Links sys has five ethernet ports on ii's back. LAN (4x) and one WAN. the WAN is connected to the DSL ISP bridge. Some people call it a modem or a router it is not. It is best to not use the wireless part first until the DSL ISP connection is set up and working. Do a hardwaired connection to the linksys.

I know that once you do it correctly one time you will see as I do how easy it is.

The linksys in question has a status page??????
Check it to see if the IP addres from the DSL ISP is good.????????????

**OErjan** · 02-04-2006, 05:26 PM

ok, you have a router, many (could even say "most consumer model") routers have DHCP as default, this sets the network up all by itself.
So the question is, have you tried to type a web adress in the first window that appears when starting knoppix?
that is a web browser and perhaps you are overcomplicating things

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have you typed

Code:

ifconfig

in a console window (icon of a computerscreen), that is equivalen to ipconfig /all in a win comandprompt, oh, ifconfig is NOT misspelled.

if you have, hmm, what do you do in windows? what does

Code:

ipconfig /all

say in windows?
if it is something like 10.0.0.XXX or 192.168.X.XXX we are a good part of the way (please put whole adress here, it is not acessible from internet).
some small things
have you tried to do netcardconfig in linux?

**IronMonkeyL255** · 02-04-2006, 06:55 PM

To answer a few questions:

I am running a cable connection, not a DSL.

I have tried just typing in an address into Firefox and Konquerer, but no dice.

I am running it from cd, b/c my ISP keeps cutting off my connection while trying to download the DVD.

I haven't yet tried the network card config thing in Linux yet. I will try that shortly.

The reason I mentioned KPPP is because the only FAQ I could find mentioned using this to get connected.

Thank you all for your overwhelming useful information. Hopefully I won't have quite so many dumb questions once I can work on Linux AND look around online at the same time.

I will now go try the NCC and report back here.

**arabic58** · 02-04-2006, 07:26 PM

Dear Mr. Munkey. Don't worry about the dumb questions,??????. You are where I was 4 years ago, but was too dumb to go to this forum and get help. I know you can get it working. I did, so can you.

The NCC thing as you say is a good place to check.

**IronMonkeyL255** · 02-04-2006, 07:28 PM

Ok.

That didn't work, but it seems like it's just from my not understanding.

When I tried using a DHCP broadcast from eth0 or eth1, it would simply say 'Operation Failed'. This confuses me because I have DHCP turned on in my router settings.

I tried doing it manually, but it doesn't seem to like me. I figure this is because I'm using the wrong IP addresses in the wrong places.

Information it's asking for:

IP Address for eth0
Network MMask for eth0
Broadcast Address for eth0
Default Gateway
Nameserver

Information I have:

Router IP Address
Router Subnet Mask
Network Address Server Settings (DHCP) Starting IP Address
Internet IP Address
Internet Subnet Mask
Default Gateway
DNS1
DNS2

Now Default Gateway is rather obvious, as is DNS = Nameserver, but which IP addresses does it want prior to that?

**Harry Kuhman** · 02-04-2006, 07:34 PM