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Configuring RedHat

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 11:24 am
by Nay
I now have a dual boot of RedHat 9 and Windows XP Professional. Sure I lost all my files during the process lol. Anyhow, I can't seem to use the internet from my RedHat - now that's a serious problem. I'm posting from my sister's computer right now. I have a router, I know how to configure it in windows but not in RedHat. I installed Gnome - if that helps.

Here's how I do it Windows, maybe this might help you to guide along the steps in RedHat.

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Network Connections.
Right Click on the Connection (Ethernet port 1, cable connecting router to computer).
Select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" and click Properties
Check "Use the following IP address"
Set:

IP Address: 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.100

Check "Use the following DNS server adderesses"
Set:

Preferred DNS Server: 202.188.0.133
Alternate DNS Server: 202.188.1.5

Then WaLaH, on Windows it's working. Can anyone please direct me on a way on RedHat 9. I really need this A.S.A.P. I mean you know most of us can't survive without an internet connection lol.

Thanks,

-Nay

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 11:36 am
by volka
can't tell exactly how it's done for redhat, but usually there are startup scripts for the network.
And unless you're using a dhcp-client there usually are two basic settings you should take care of.
  • parameters that are passed to the ifconfig command for the adapter, e.g.

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    iface_eth0="192.168.101.21 broadcast 192.168.101.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"
  • parameters that are passed to the route command, e.g.

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    gateway="eth0/192.168.101.1"
both settings are in /etc/conf.d/net on my gentoo-system

probably there's also the file /etc/resolv.conf that controls the way net-names are resolved, e.g.

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nameserver 145.253.2.81
search
you might also want to take a look at http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentat ... onfig.php3

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 12:27 pm
by Nay
woah, I am confused with what you said but I tried out the manual version. When I try to activate my connection, with the "Profile" checkbox checked:
3c501 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization
Without the "Profile" checkbox checked:
/sbin/ifup: configuration for eth0 no found. Usage: ifup <device name>
-Nay

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 12:38 pm
by volka
Note
The installation program usually detects supported Ethernet devices and prompts you to configure them.
did this happen or did you have to add the card manually?

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 12:43 pm
by Nay
Nope, all hardware was working when I was on XP. I didn't touch any of the hardware when I was installing RedHat.

-Nay

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:20 pm
by volka
that's not what I meant. Did redhat's Network Administration Tool automagically detect the ethernet card and prompted you to configure it or did you manually selected the hardware device, setting it to 3c501?
The question points to: Is there actually a driver installed and running for the ethernet card?

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:15 pm
by Nay
Oh Yeah, firs time, I had to select "Other Ethernet". So Yeah, it wasn't installed. Then I turned off the Plug and Play from my BIOS screen and RedHat detected both my network cards. They're both active now. So my network cards are okay, I guess. My light is also there (not blinking as it should be, just there) on the router.

But I still can't use the internet though I've configured the gateway and other things.

-Nay

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 10:04 pm
by Nay
Wow, it looks much clearer with RedHat. Well, thanks for the help Volka. I was playing around then I restarted and apparently my internet is working now.

Man, I need to learn how to do stuff not-accidentally.

-Nay

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 11:25 pm
by Nay
Hey, I want to use gAIM so. You know, that program from SourceForge that's something like Trillian. Anyhow, I downloaded the .rpm for RH9 but everytime I run it, afte processing headers, it just disappears.

Help,

-Nay

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 12:00 am
by Nay
Okay, so don't take me as spamming :P, but I go gAIM working now - well, kinda. Now I get this error when I try to log into MSN.

http://chaosdreamers.com/external/images/msn_error.jpg

-Nay

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 4:41 am
by volka
msn changed the login procedure and locked out all "old" clients.
on the same day microsoft closed the msn chat completely for users from europe, asia and latin america.

http://messenger.msn.com/Help/Upgrades.aspx

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 5:57 am
by Nay
Oh great, so I can't use MSN on RedHat? Any way around it? On the other hand, I can't seem to install Mozilla 1.5. I have 1.2 by default. It says I don't have permission to create usr/local/mozilla folder, or something like that. The MSN Messenger add-on for Mozilla seemed to work for me when I was on Windows, I want to try it that way.

I tried installing on 1.2, it said installation complete but when I press the Window menu, I can't find MSN Messenger.

-Nay

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 6:15 pm
by Cruzado_Mainfrm
hey if u manage to put this to work, will you help me do the same too :D?

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 2:36 am
by Nay
Yeah sure, I'll help as much as I could. Just hope I can have MSNmsgr able to run by then lol.

On the other hand, I feel that my configuration is screwed up and think I should reinstall. mMm...........

-Nay

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:06 am
by Nay
Okay, I'm screwed. I did something and now I can't start up niether Windows nor RedHat O_o.

But I just reinstalled Windows like 3 days ago :(. Oh well,

-Nay

Edit, Can anyone point me to that program that takes the .iso from the RedHat Installation Disk 1 and turns it into a boot disk?

-Nay

Another Edit:

I have fixed the problem of grub. I ran the Windows 98 SE boot disk and did:
A: C:\
C:\ fdisk /MDR
Though I'm not sure about the MDR part. I saw it on some forum I searched on. :lol:. Anyhow, I also got the bootdisk part done I did:
format a:
rawrite -f bootdisk.img
No more problems to more - I hope. But then there's never no errors in an installation of something for me :(.

-Nay