please help !!!!

[mahdi]

hello .....

need help with my internet connection, it connects but browser doesnt display any pages on request .....

someone tell me what and how to configure

thanks

mahdi

[rickenbacherus]

mahdi- A suggestion if I may, you'll do better to use a descriptive subject line instead of 'help!'.

Anyway...........you provide us with no information about how you connect. Dail-up? - is your modem working? cable, ADSL- what about your home LAN? Router? A desktop as a gateway?

Open a term and do this:

ifconfig -a

What does it tell you? Here's mine:

$ ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:B0:05:AD:AB
          inet addr:192.168.0.100  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:9781 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7636 errors:94 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:94
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:11123532 (10.6 MiB)  TX bytes:772021 (753.9 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf800 Memory:d4000-dc000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2056 (2.0 KiB)  TX bytes:2056 (2.0 KiB)

Do you have an i.p. address?
If so can you ping by i.p. address?

$ ping 204.71.200.69
PING 204.71.200.69 (204.71.200.69): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 204.71.200.69: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=56.1 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.200.69: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=62.3 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.200.69: icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=54.8 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.200.69: icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=54.8 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.200.69: icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=61.1 ms

--- 204.71.200.69 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 54.8/57.8/62.3 ms

If that works.....

$ ping www.yahoo.com
PING www.yahoo.akadns.net (216.109.125.73): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.109.125.73: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=79.7 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.125.73: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=53.9 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.125.73: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=51.3 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.125.73: icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=53.5 ms

--- www.yahoo.akadns.net ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 51.3/59.6/79.7 ms

Trouble shooting network problems is still the same in Linux my friend.

[mahdi]

hello
thanks for replying ...

well i have a modem that connects to the internet perfectly with Kppp but the issue is that when trying to reach a site , it just ' cant resolve it " and doesnt show it ..

One post said that I have to configure the browser so that it 'has my user name and pass' in some way .... but I dont know how to configure it .... I tried preferences in Mozilla but couldnt find a place for username /passwd ......

so basically what I'm asking is how to configure things so that my internet works ??


Thanks alot

Mahdi

[rickenbacherus]

Connects to the internet perfectly eh? mahdi- read my above post, do ifconfig -a, do some pings- let us know what happens. AFAIK there is no place to enter a username in a browser but you may need to enter your ISP's DNS (domain name server) in /etc/resolv.conf. Here's mine:

search clspco.adelphia.net
nameserver 24.53.86.14
nameserver 24.53.86.13

I am unaware of the wimpdoze equivalent to /etc/resolv.conf.

[mahdi]

Hi,

here is what I did .... what you asked for ....


eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:E0:E6:24
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1304 (1.2 KiB) TX bytes:1304 (1.2 KiB)




ping 204.71.200.69 (204.71.200.69) : 56 bytes returned

ping www.yahoo.com doesnt return anything at all.



The /etc/resolve.conf file contains this :

nameserver 192.168.0.254



hope you can identify the problem ....

thanks

Mahdi

[rickenbacherus]

Since your i.p. address is 192.168.0.1 I presume you are on a LAN correct?

I would find out what your DNS ip addresses are and enter them in /etc/resolv.conf

[mahdi]

hi,

well im not really on LAN, as I said im on modem . Pratically speaking my ISP is my university , in windows I dial it up with username and pass and nothing more ...

So like that , what will be the DNS IP addresses ? they are supposed to be automaticly detected somehow ...

Mahdi

[rickenbacherus]

mahdi- You have an ip right? You can ping by ip right? But you cannot ping by domain name right? Doesn't that tell you something? Linux doesn't know where your domain name servers are. DNS When you established your account at school did they provide you with anything necessary to connect to the internet?

Based on your ip alone you are on a LAN- just because you use a modem to connect is entirely irrelevant.

LAN=Local Area Network-my home, your school
WAN=Wide Area Network-the internet
(it's not quite as simple as that but you get the idea).

Now of course nothing is absolute and certainly I have been mistaken before but I think that's what you need to do. What happens in windwos when you do this:

ipconfig

Maybe it's

ipconfig /all
ipconfig /release_all
ipconfig /renew_all

The exact syntax varies with your version of windows.

I don't know- there's a way to find out. Have you looked around in windows? Control center>Network???
Control Center>Internet Options>Connections
Have you used the search function in windows?