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New install of Redhat 9.0 and cannot access internet

Apr 9, 2005 9:55AM PDT

I just installed Redhat 9.0 from a boxed set I purchased new a while back. it's on a P4 w/128 megs of ram and 80 Gig hd.

It installed easy and I entered my router ip (192.168.1.1) and my comcast dns entries.

How do I resolve this?

Thanks,

Tony

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entered my router ip (192.168.1.1) and my comcast dns...
Apr 10, 2005 7:18AM PDT

That seems wrong to me. What I would enter the 192.168.1.1 as the gateway, I would also have to enter my unique IP such as 192.168.1.101 and a netmask such as 255.255.255.0 to get this to work.

DHCP would do that automagically.

Bob

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Try. . .
Apr 11, 2005 9:10AM PDT

double checking your DNS entries for mistakes. Also, make sure your card is detected and using the proper drivers.

Why are you manually adding the DNS entries anyway?
Do you not have DHCP enabled?

If you do have DHCP, try having it automatically detect the DNS entries.

* Off the subject, but you're wasting proccessing power with only 128mbs of Ram on a P4. It deserves more, much more.

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New install of Redhat 9.0 and cannot access internet
Apr 21, 2005 6:25AM PDT

As it happens, I did a fresh install of RH 9.0 today; I let it autoconfig - no manual entries at all - and it worked immediately. Now, if only my tv tuner would do the same.....