[Linux-disciples] Re: connecting to the internet

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

You also mentioned that another computer is able to get on the network
running Windows. Is that computer also connecting through an Ethernet
cable or wirelessly?

Do you see a light on the router and/or on your computer when you
connect the Ethernet cable?

Have you tried manually setting the IP address:

ifconfig eth0 inet 192.168.8.100

and then see if you can ping or browse to the router?

Karl Sokol wrote:
>
>> Sounds like eth0 is a wireless card?
>
> Sorry, I was not clear.  The computer is a desktop.  An Ethernet cable
> goes to a  router, which in turn is connected to a cable modem, which is
> connected to an antanae that picks up my wireless service.  (Though all
> the info on wireless networking will be helpful when we make the laptop
> Linux- but that is another day.)
>
>> (1) Does your computer see your network card?
>
> ifconfig  eth0 looks O.K.
>
> The address for the router configuration page is 192.168.8.1.  Pinging
> this address gives 'unable to access host'.  I connect through ppoe on
> windows.
> Running PPOE gives "Sorry I scanned 1 interface,but the Access
> concentrtor of your provider did not respond. Please check your network
> and modem cables. Another reason for the scan failure may also be
> another running PPPoe process which controls the modem"
>
> I killed everything that looked like it might be offending, but to no
> avail.
> I think have patchwork of trying different things may have caused a
> jumble mess.  Is there a way to start at square one?
>
> I am downloading ubuntu, and will try to connect through that.
>
> Thanks for the leads so far.
>
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