[GLLUG] can't connect to Internet with mdk10.1 community

Ryan R. Matt swimmerooo at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 9 14:16:18 EST 2004


--- Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 November 2004 12:12, after a long
> battle with technology, 
> Ryan R. Matt wrote:
> > To whomever may be able to assit:
> 
> I'm a'sssiting on m'chair right now, but I don't
> think that'll help you 
> that much :-)
> 
> > I installed Mandrake 10.1 community last night and
> > after restarting the computer, my Internet
> connection
> > no longer works. First I tired the configuration 
> > tools provided by the Drake Control Center,
> 
> Pointy-clicky tools tend to confuse things *unless*
> they work 
> immediately.
> 
> > Next, I tried to run ifup eht0, ifdown eth0,
> neither
> > gave me much information.
> 
> For a static IP, you typically use "ifconfig eth0
> X.Y.Z.W up && route 
> add default gw A.B.C.D" where X.Y.Z.W is the IP you
> want to assign to 
> eth0 and A.B.C.D is the default gateway.  For a
> dynamic IP, you just do 
> "dhcpcd -d eth0".  "ifup" is a Redhat-derived thing
> that reads a 
> configuration file somewhere in the mess under
> /etc/sysconfig and 
> eventually issues one of those two commands after
> going through a bunch 
> of (usually unnecessary) fiddling.

I'll try this right now

> What is the output of "ifconfig | grep -A7 eth0 &&
> route -n"?  This 
> information is vital to solving the problem and it
> wasn't in the first 
> message.

I'll get back to you on this one, I need to reboot to
linux.
> 
> > My ISP is SBC DSL 
> 
> Using PPPoE or a "normal" Ethernet-connected DSL
> router?  PPPoE requires 
> some special handling, namely the Roaring Penguin
> PPPoE client software 
> or an equivalent.

PPPoE without a router: my computer is plugged
directly into the dsl modem
> 
> Your firewall (Shorewall according to the dmesg
> dump) *may* be 
> interfering with something.  Try turning it off with
> whatever tools 
> Mandrake uses.  If you can then ping other machines,
> you need to 
> restart/reconfigure/something the firewall.  If the
> firewall was 
> originally configured to allow packets to X.Y.Z.W
> and your machine's IP 
> changed (DHCP or whatever, happens every so often)
> then you need to put 
> the new allowed destination address in.

so try to disable, will do

Thank you for your courtesies and assitance.


=====
Ryan R. Matt
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