[PLUG] Browser won't browse

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Apr 6 23:19:32 UTC 2002


On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Richard Steffens wrote:

> > Run /sbin/ifconfig eth0 at the command line and make sure you have an ip
> > address.
> 
> 192.168.0.253 on my laptop, 192.168.0.254 on my server.

Richard,

  What do you see when you run /sbin/ifconfig eth0? It should be something
like this:

[rshepard at salmo ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:05:42:B6:04
          inet addr:192.168.55.1  Bcast:192.168.55.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:343487706 errors:0 dropped:150 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:233177892 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:19096982 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe400

  If this doesn't come up then eth0 is not running. In that case, try
running `/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart'.

  My notebook (a Toshiba Portege 3025CT) stopped loading the network upon
boot after a while. So, I put the command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local/ to make
sure I have a network connection when I boot the tyke. Looks from here as
though you don't have the network modules running on your laptop.
 
> > Also try to ping an ip address outside your lan. 
> 
> When I try to run ping from my laptop I get this message:
> 
>   connect: Network is unreachable

  Restart it.
 
> > Check your
> > /etc/resolv.conf and make sure your DNS servers are listed.
>  
> Both the laptop and the server have the same contents:
> 
>   search steffensfamily.com
>   nameserver 192.168.0.1
 
  It may be different with a cable connection than with my DSL line, but
here /etc/resolve.conf contains the primary and secondary DNS servers for my
ISP.

HTH,

Rich





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