Internet Not Working

**Knee0n** · 10-23-2004

I just installed College Linux, my first ever distro, using The_Q's guide off of www.collegelinux.org . When i open up mozilla it cannot connect to any web pages. I can ping 127.0.0.1 and the internet on my WINXP partition works fine. Any ideas?

**Goran** · 10-23-2004

Hi ! First of all welcome to the forums !!!

Can you ping any other addresses except localhost ? if you can't, did you setup your DNS ip address. In the file /etc/resolv.conf you should have a line like nameserver <ip> where ip is the IP of your DNS. Take a look at the posts at this part of the forum.

**Knee0n** · 10-24-2004

I cannot ping any outside sources nor can a computer on the network ping the linux computer. The driver seems to be fine and card can ping 127.0.0.1

Any ideas?

**lakerdonald** · 10-24-2004

why don't you try

Code:

ifconfig eth0 up

if that doesn't return any output, then it worked. then try pinging stuff. if it still can't ping after ifconfiging, then:

Code:

dhclient eth0

(i assume that you use DHCP?)
-lakerdonald

**Knee0n** · 10-24-2004

Heh! It turns out the college internet went down right after I switched from XP to Linux

I went back to check if WinXP worked and it didn't. My internet now works for both OSes!!!

Thanks for all the help!

**lakerdonald** · 10-24-2004

yay
who'd of thought that linux wasn't responsible. i bet you a million bucks that the college servers are running windows

-lakerdonald

**Knee0n** · 10-24-2004

They are running Windows! I was looking in the employment section on the college website and they are looking for a Linux expert because i believe they are converting.

**lakerdonald** · 10-24-2004

well at least they have seen the light

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