On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 11:45, Ammon Christiansen wrote: > Bryan Murdock wrote: > > >On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 23:04, Ammon Christiansen wrote: > > > It said something about loopback > the ip address was only a localhost type 128. or 127. 0.0.1 > > Weirdly enough, I checked the system/services section and did ifconfig > again and chkconfig --list > > I found out that mandrake control center is set up to start network and > internet at boot and it said they were both running, but inthe chkconfig > --list internet was not listed although network was. I wonder if it > just can't sense the internet connection. I live in Heritage Halls (on > campus) if that makes any difference. I never had any problems with > RedHat with it autodetecting it. I can ping localhost, but I don't seem > to be getting an outside Internet connection. That narrows things > down. What should I try from here? > > Thanks a bunch!
Just try this on the command line as root: service network restart and see what happens. You should see it try and get an IP address for eth0. Something else to try typing is this: dmesg | grep eth0 and tell us what that says. This will tell us if your network card was configured at boot. Bryan _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
