Anne Wilson wrote: >> I installed fedora 11 and I can't get online. It detects the Internet >> connection and says it is established but firefox will not connect >> neither will the system update. Is there something I need to do in the >> terminal to make it go online. I have a dsl connection. I had to revert >> back to ubuntu to get online. Any help would be appreciated. >> > This sounds like a dns problem. Right-click on the network icon in your > system tray, and choose Edit Connection. You should then see your > connection, > probably (but not necessarily) as eth0. Highlight it and choose Edit. On > the > IPV4 tab you need an entry. In most cases you can simply give it the > address > of your adsl router or modem - often 192.168.1.1. What that does is tell > your application to go through the router or modem and ask your ISP to > resolve the addresses you give it. Although all this seems sensible to me, I am a bit surprised none of you gurus has suggested using "ping". I would start by pinging my ISP, if possible using the IP address. To me, the first question would be, "Are my packets leaving the house?" If I determined that they were, I would think to myself, "So it's a pretty simple issue then, probably something to do with DNS, or maybe DHCP." If I found the packets were not leaving my house, I would be much less sanguine. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
