XP and FC5 Dual Boot Problem

[nscrnbr27]

I am using a Dynex router default IP 192.168.0.1

Windows XP automatically gets the IP address DNS and Gateway no problem.

In Fedora Core 5. I set the static Ip up with the same information. The network says its active. but I cann't even ping the Router. I can get online in XP no problem at all.

My question. I have been struggling with this since god knows how long. Is there any recommendations that I can try?

I am thinking its router related but have limited experience with them.

My Hardware

Amd Athlon xp 2700+
Soltek SL-NV400-L64 http://www.nforcershq.com/nforce-products-48.html

Seems like I am not the only one with this problem so I have tried numberous things with static ip, dns, gateway.

[Zotter]

You've staticly set the IP addy in FC5 - cool. Have you also set the default route?
(you can avoid setting static IPs by using DHCP IP reservations. See your router's documentation on how to do that. That way your DHCP server - your router, in this case - will give the same IP to your FC5 box everytime it asks for one. Then set all the DNS and route info for you. Has a tad of elagance to it.)

The 'route' command will show as your default route. Something like:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

Last one is the one to notice. Tells the kernel how to get traffic outside your LAN. If it's not there (no default route) or points to an invalid IP (should be your router's LAN IP), fix it up.

Delete an incorect default route with:

$route del default

You can add the default route with:

$route add default gw 192.168.0.1 <enter>

And of course, man route for all the juicy details.

Good luck!

[nscrnbr27]

Still not working

I setup the static ip manually
setup the default route
activate and firefox will not even find a webpage.

I cannot even ping or connect to my router.