Internet Doesn't work on Red Hat 7

[Soviet_Genius]

I installed red hat 7 on my old computer. The internet doesn't work. it uses a PCMCIA network card, but I think the problem is that I just need to set up my network, but I have no clue how to do that.

[GX1_Man]

It would be a lot easier and less stressful to use something more current.  

[Rob Pomeroy]

Can't remember the RH7 network installation command.  There is a "druid" (a "wizard") which does the grunt work.  Something like sytem-install-network.  Have a look in /usr/sbin - you'll probably find the command there.

But unless you're doing this on old hardware, I agree with GX1_Man - get a more current distribution.

[Soviet_Genius]

A more current distro probably won't work. This one barely works, since the comp only has 120 Pentium 1 and 16 mb RAM.

[GX1_Man]

And you are using some sort of graphical window manager I presume? how is that running other than that?

You seem intent on using a hammer on something that needs a screwdriver.  

[Soviet_Genius]

It uses some ancient KDE that looks somewhat like windows 9x and runs in 800X600 (which is the max resolution on that thing)

[GX1_Man]

See above.  

[Soviet_Genius]

I set up the network, there was a kajigger in the sbin folder, im pretty sure that i set it up properly and its still doesnt work. it uses netscape 4 i think. i tried pinging my router through some "network utility" thing and it wont work, says "connect: Network is unreachable"

[Rob Pomeroy]

there was a kajigger in the sbin folder

What?

root@iridium:~# kajigger
-bash: kajigger: command not found

[GX1_Man]

From the urban slang dictionary.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kajigger


Much like a lappy, I'm afraid.  

[Soviet_Genius]

the actual thing i ran was "./netsetup" then i put in the IP adress for the computer (192.168.123.101) the "netmask" AKA the "subnet mask" (255.255.255.0) and the default gateway (192.168.123.254) but it still doesnt work. Just an idea, maybe i need drivers for my PCMCIA card?


oh and i'm going to russia for a month so don't expect me to reply anything (unless i find a computer and an internet connection (UNLIKELY))

[Rob Pomeroy]

Please post the output of the following two commands: ifconfig and route.

[Soviet_Genius]

[root@Hitachi /root]#ifconfig
lo              Link encap:Local Loopback
                inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
                UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 3924   Metric:1
                RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier: 0
                collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
[root@Hitachi /root]#route
Kernel IP Routing Table
Destination       Gateway      Genmask     Flags     Metric   Ref   Use  Iface
127.0.0.0            *              255.0.0.0      u              0      0       0    lo





I think that somethings wrong (127.0.0.0 ??)

[Rob Pomeroy]

That tells me your ethernet interface is not actually running.  lo = loopback; it's a kind of "dummy" interface for computers with no network card, so that you can still run servers (e.g. web servers) on a machine with no network card.  The address will be 127.0.0.1.  (No idea why you even have a gateway configured for the loopback interface - that's wrong and pointless!)

Still, all may be resolved by one simple command:

ifup eth0

That will usually bring up the relevant interface.  If that command completes successfully, check the output of ifconfig and route again.  Things should look a bit different.

[Soviet_Genius]

Delaying eth0 Initialization.

thats the thing after "ifup eth0", ifconfig, same thing as before