Newbie Question

[Derek Atkins]

<karina.popkova at verizon.net> writes:

> Hello
>
> /etc/resolve.conf is empty

Try /etc/resolv.conf (not resolve -- there is no 'e')

Also, what do you get from:

  route -n

> ifconfig shows:
> eth0 link encal:Ethr H/Ware addr 00:04:5A::A4:E0:4F
> inet addr: 192.168.0.11 Bcst:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP Broadcast RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> Rx Pkts:25 errors:0 dropped overruns:0
> Tx Pkts:4 errors:0 dropped overruns:0
> Collision:0
> RXbytes:1900  TXbytes:240
> Intrp:3 Baseaddr:0x300
[snip]

> That's it, what am I supposed to see here ?

This shows that you have an IP address, you've sent 4 packets
and received 25, which is good.

> thanks
> -k

-derek

>> 
>> From: "Dwight A. Ernest" <dwight at significant.com>
>> Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 01:42:32 EST
>> To: karina.popkova at verizon.net
>> CC: discuss at blu.org
>> Subject: Re: Newbie Question
>> 
>> Karina,
>> 
>> Show us an output from 'netstat -rn'.
>> 
>> karina.popkova at verizon.net wrote:
>> 
>> > Hello
>> > 
>> > I have an old laptop, dual-boot
>> > with Win 98 and RH 7.3, both work fine ...
>> > 
>> > Just got a PCMCIA Network Card (10/100)
>> > for  it. Booted into Linux, router blinks,
>> > and dmseg checks for new hardware.
>> > 
>> > Netstat command shows connections.
>> > 
>> > Brought up Netscape (and/or Mozilla) 
>> > tried to connect to outside world via 
>> > Netscape  but get errors.
>> > 
>> > Actually, router that I am connected to,
>> > is on DSL, and other machine gets out to 
>> > Internet as normal ...
>> > 
>> > So I assume that we are almost there with Laptop???
>> > 
>> > What is wrong or needs to be configured ?
>> > 
>> > thanks
>> > 
>> > Karina
>> > 
>> > 
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