I believe configuration with @home is covered in the howtos...
Grep them...
This actually has little to do with Jon's suggestion. @home uses dhcp to
allocate IP's to your ethernet card. By default, Linux does not use dhcp to
grab it's network config information.
You'll need to set this up...
-JMS
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: networking problems
> how do you get out onto the internet? cable modem? I know squat about
> @Home :(
>
> try to ping localhost. if that doesnt work, then I suspect the
> installation only *appeared* to go perfect.
>
> if it does work, there's a few things you can try.
>
> as root: ifconfig.
> this should usually show at least a 'lo' device (loopback), and for you,
> hopefully soon an 'eth0' device.
>
> you might also try, as root, "ifup eth0" and see what is sez.
>
> maybe then you'll have a more clear idea where the problem is.
>
----- Original Message -----
From: exqt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 6:10 PM
Subject: networking problems
>
>
> Hi, today I installed Red Hat 6.0 on my system. The installation went
> perfect, Red Hat detected my network card, I configured everything, but
> when I rebooted and tried pinging hostnames/IP's I got "Network
> Unreachable". I don't know what's wrong so I ask you to please help me.
> Here is some more details:
>
> * I'm using the @Home service.
> * My Ethernet card is: Linksys LNE100TX
> * Red Hat assigned the Tulip driver for the card.
> * The kernel version is 2.2.5-15
>
> Please e-mail me if you need to know anything else in order to help me.
> Thank you!
>
> Ross
>
>
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