No network after bootstrapping??

eviltoylet · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 8

Hi everybody -- just getting started with linux. Tried suse -- hated it, now trying gentoo.

So, I successfully got to the bootstrapping part following the manual. Started the bootstrap script, then went to sleep. Woke up, came back -- and network access seems to be defunct. I'm not sure if the network card is in sleep mode or something ... but no idea how to get it back up

30726 · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 1501

Do you use an ISP that uses some kind of login method to get online?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:32 pm Post subject:

eviltoylet,

do lsmod
It should list sis900 if thats your network module.
If thats OK,
Do ifconfig. Is eth0 listed and does its setup look sane?

If you have an eth0, do
route
If you have a defualt route poiting to the outside, try
ping 216.239.37.99
and
ping google.com
They are the same thing.
If ping by IP works but by name fails, your /etc/resolv.conf is broken.
It needs to contain the IP of a working nameserver like this

eviltoylet · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 8

thanks for the quick reply guys. seems a bit faster than the gentoo irc when i used it yetserday

anyway, i'm connected through a router. all other computers on the network have working access ... hence , the reason i'm able to post.

lsmod shows sis900 used by '1'. ifconfig does show the eth0. However, when i look at the route. I see the following

destination gateway genmask flags metric ref use iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255 0 0 0 0 eth0
loopback ................

when i try the ping , it automatically (almost instantaneously) returns:
ping: unknown host www.google.com

thank you guys once again

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:47 pm Post subject:

eviltoylet,

Your default route is missing.

say

r0nin · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:49 pm Post subject:

What's your /etc/conf.d/net look like.
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eviltoylet · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 8

neddy:: i tried what you said but i get a usage message for inet_route. I'm not too familiar with the terminology.. so not sure what the ip of the next hop is referring to.

r0nin: I commented it out. now what?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:57 pm Post subject:

eviltoylet,

The next hop is your router. By tradition its 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.0.254 but it can be anything in that subnet.

Even windows will know it. Look it up on another PC.
Linux==route
Windows (in a DOS box) netstat -r
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

eviltoylet · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 8

thanks neddy, but no cigar

found my hop to be 192.168.0.1 -- tried

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:13 pm Post subject:

eviltoylet,

Please post the full text of the error. It may well mean something to your readers.
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

eviltoylet · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 8

hi neddy. sorry about being so vague. didn't realize you neede more information. here's what i get.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject:

eviltoylet,

Oops its my fault - I missed the gw

eviltoylet · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 8

neddy. thanks. i did that, fiddle around here and there... which involved typing modprobe sis900 millions of times, ran net-setup . and finally got it to work. currently doing its mojo.

though i still have no idea exactly what went wrong and why network access suddenly broke.

many thanks, i owe you a guniess