Firefox not workng in Fedora 7

[acg1]

HI, I am brand new to Linux and I just installed fedora 7 on another machine I had. I want to use it for programming.

Everything seems to be working so far in fedora 7 except firefox wont connect. I get the "Server not found" error for every site I go to. At the top ( and when I log into fedora) it says "wired network connected."

Under the System -> Admin -> Network, it says that the main eth0 ( the main Ethernet port) is Active. I dont know where to begin. I have been seraching the internet and forums looking for someone with this same problem and i cant find it.


I have been around windows since forever so i need some help. Thanks.

[valemon]

Do you get an ip address? Type "su -", your password and "ifconfig" and post the output here. Try

ping -c 4 64.233.183.99

to see if you get an answer.

[acg1]

It appears that I am getting an IP address.

When I do "ping -c 4 169.254.175.178" which I found to be the IP for my Linux box It ran through some packets (I think) and said 4 packets transmitted, 4 received...

When I tried "ping -c 4 64.233.183.99" it said network is unreachable.

When I typed "su -", My password, "ifconfig" I got:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet Hwaddr 00:0F:1F25F7
inet addr:169.254.175.178 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:1fff:fed2:d5f7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:242372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:15927233 (15.1MiB) TX bytes:50922 (49.7 KiB)
Interrupt:18

irda0 Link encap:IrLap Hwaddr bc:fa:5d:47
UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:2048 METRIC:1
...there is some other stuff, but i gottired of retyping it. I can do if it will help though...


Also, At the top where it says "wired network connected" I can right click and get the connection information which says:

Interface: Wired Ethernet (eth0)
Speed: 100 mb/s
Driver: b44

IP Address: 169.254.175.178
Broadcast Address: 169.254.255.255
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Default route: 0.0.0.0
primary DNS: 0.0.0.0
secondary DNS: 0.0.0.0
Hardware Address: 00:0F:1F25:F7

One more thing I have a cable modem connected to a 5 port network hub to connect both of my computers (windows, the one i am on now and the linux box). Nothing changes when I connect straight from my cable modem to the linux box.


thanks for any help.

[valemon]

Try to put as primary dns the ip address of your modem.