fedora 8 will not connect to internet

[gatliffe]

I helping a friend who has 3 computers connected together with a
modem/router on DSL. Two of the computers run Xandros Linux. They are
fine but this one (running Fedora 8) will not connect using Firefox.
It will connect using Konqueror. I checked the DNS no#; it has
192.16.0.1 as the first #, this is the IP for the modem. It uses
216.165.129. 157 for the 2nd #. If I use this no# for the 1st and
216.170.153. 146 for the 2nd it works fine, but it won't keep the no#
when it reboots; it goes right back to the way it was.

[Brian1]

Reverting back is because of the interface setup as DHCP. Now there are a few things to check.
Before doing anything in firefox type this on the browser line and see if Google website comes up.
http://64.233.167.104

If so do the following changes.
In Firefox type ' about:config ' and search for this line. network.dns.disableIPv6. Set it to true.
Next add this line to the file /etc/modprobe.conf if not there. ' alias ipv6 off '
And last edit /etc/hosts and add a # in front of this line like so. ' # ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 '

Brian

[ayato]

hi, gatliffe i have the same problem

[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UniChrome Pro IGP (rev 01)
[root@localhost ~]#
i can know my Lan Phy is realtek rtl8201BL/RTL8201CL
then i worked with ndiswrapper and i had the next problem
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.49]# make distclean
make -C driver clean
make[1]: se ingresa al directorio `/root/Escritorio/ndiswrapper-1.49/driver'
Makefile:24: *** Kernel tree not found - please set KBUILD to configured kernel. Alto.
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/root/Escritorio/ndiswrapper-1.49/driver'
make: *** [clean] Error 2
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.49]# make
make -C driver
make[1]: se ingresa al directorio `/root/Escritorio/ndiswrapper-1.49/driver'
Makefile:24: *** Kernel tree not found - please set KBUILD to configured kernel. Alto.
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/root/Escritorio/ndiswrapper-1.49/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.49]# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: se ingresa al directorio `/root/Escritorio/ndiswrapper-1.49/driver'
Makefile:24: *** Kernel tree not found - please set KBUILD to configured kernel. Alto.
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/root/Escritorio/ndiswrapper-1.49/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.49]#

and i can`t solved
anybody can help me please

[m-rax]

Hello I am having a similar problem ..... I am using Fedeor 8 on Asus P5RD1 - VM mother board which coms with LAN inbuilt...... I am not able to open web pages ...... How ever on the same machine when i boot in Windows I am able to open pages.......I m using a reliance 150KBPs Wi Max connection..... As I am a starter in Linux I am not able to figure head or tail..... Please help

[Yang SeungDo]

Hello, me too.
I have similar as not connect to internet.
and I found doubts.

1.
LAN cable is almost disconnected so, the booting message was "eth0 active [Faild]" but Today I see "eth0 activate [ OK ]" after update Fedora 8.
true is [ Failed ] because LAN cable is disconnected.
NetworkManager tried to connect LAN because system shows the connected LAN that wire is disconnective.
So I must try to select wireless for connecting internet. (several times I select wireless name)

2.
I often use LAN by fixed address, then I set broardcast value xxx.xxx.xxx.254.
but I see the value of broadcast is always xxx.xxx.xxx.255 after I run a command "ifconfig eth0" for checking connection.

3.
Ping was good about "http://64.233.167.104" at that time Firefox program was no support connection of internet by LAN mode.
I tried to connect wireless and used internet, then LAN mode recovered good operation like wireless.
(I used NetworkManager for wireless)
but, If this area is sensitivity internet, then several times later this re-occurred.

How to connect internet about LAN and Wireless well?

I tried to reinstall 2 times about Fedora8 for solving it for 2 days but I can't solve.
Please, help me. T_T ;;

[Brian1]

To ayato
You are building the ndiswrapper module package. It does not appear you have installed the kernel source. If you have the orginal installed kernel still running and not updated the system then the file on the install disc called kernel-devel-*******.rpm where ****** is the kernel version you are running. To see that run this command ' uname -r '. Now if the numbers match then you can install that one off the cd with this command as root. ' rpm -ivh kernel-devel*.rpm '. If it is not the same exact number you need to install the kernel-devel from where you got the new kernel from. Now do the make on ndiswrapper source.

Now remember if you update the kernel you need the matching kernel-devel and then rebuild ndiswrapper for the new kernel. ndiswrapper is a module that works with the kernel itself. It must be built to work with that kernel.

Brian

[Brian1]

To m-rax.
Is the network nic configured?
Can you ping the routers IP? ping -c2 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the lan IP
Or ping google. ping -c2 64.233.167.147
If you can ping google do it by doamin name. ping -c2 www.google.com

Brian

[gatliffe]

Thanks I disable Ipv6 and that did the job it work good now :)

[m-rax]

To Brian 1. Thanks a lot for your response...... I would require some more help....

Could you please tell me how to check if the network nic configured?


I have also tried some steps by disabling IPV6. But that did not worked..... The internet connection wire is connected to my computers lan card...

[m-rax]

I have also tried some steps by disabling IPV6. But that did not worked..... The internet connection wire is connected to my computers lan card...

[Brian1]

To m-rax
Can you do the ping commands I mentioned above?
Post output of /sbin/lspci -v and the section that is the nic in question.

Brian

[m-rax]

Thanks a lot Brian ..... I did exactly what you said now the system is connected to internet. :) ..... One additional thing i did is deleted all old devices under System>Administration>Network and configured a new one with the default configuration.




Result of ping -c2 64.233.167.147:

[root@localhost ~]# ping -c2 64.233.167.147
connect: Network is unreachable :confused:

Result of Ping ping -c2 www.google.com

[root@localhost ~]# ping -c2 www.google.com
ping: unknown host www.google.com
:confused:
Result of /sbin/lspci -v command:

[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 819a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at <ignored> (64-bit, non-prefetchable)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: bfd00000-dfdfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 9fc00000-bfbfffff
Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

00:19.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: dfe00000-dfefffff
Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping

00:1b.0 Ethernet controller: ALi Corporation ULi 1689,1573 integrated ethernet. (rev 50)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 816a
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
Memory at dffffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:1c.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8056
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at dfffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:1c.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8056
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at dfffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:1c.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8056
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at dfffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:1c.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8056
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at dffff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port

00:1d.0 Audio device: ALi Corporation High Definition Audio/AC'97 Host Controller
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 818f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 23
Memory at dfff8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:1e.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to LPC Controller (rev 31)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8056
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64

00:1e.1 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8056
Flags: medium devsel

00:1f.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c7) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8056
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

00:1f.1 RAID bus controller: ALi Corporation ULi 5287 SATA (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8056
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 20
I/O ports at ec00 [size=16]
I/O ports at e480 [size=8]
I/O ports at e400 [size=16]
I/O ports at e080 [size=8]
I/O ports at e000 [size=32]
Memory at dffff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 819a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at a0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at dfde0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-

02:13.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d0)
Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. PCTV 110i (saa7133)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
Memory at dfeff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

[root@localhost ~]#

[Yang SeungDo]

However tried to solve it as above message, I can't solve it.
Finally , I got back to Fedora7 and solved it.

[Brian1]

To m-rax. From the info on the nic from the lspci command and doing a bit of google search seems to imply that there is no standard kernel module support for the wired nic. So the next thing to do is install ndiswrapper and use the windows inf driver to interface with it. About all I know to do with it.

Brian

[m-rax]

Hello Brian.... Need your help again..... Fedora stopped connecting to internet again :confused: ....... It worked fine for 2 days but unfortunately problem resurfaced...... [There was similar problem with Windows connection also(Its on the Computermachine ) ..I solved the isssues in Windows by using the folliwng commands:

netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt
ipconfig/renew
ipconfig /flushdns ]

Is there any such ways of troubleshooting available in Linux Fedora?

My MSN Messenger ID is : m.r.boruwa@hotmail.com

[marcrblevins]

If linux and Windows can't get on the internet, guessing your default DNS server took a dump.

[marcrblevins]

Rephrase, meant your ISP's DNS server has issues.

[m-rax]

BUt I am able to connect to internet after performing the steps I have mentioned previously ........

what I wanted to know if similar troubleshooting is possible in Fedora ?

[m-rax]

How to reset and renew IP in Fedora ................. Somebody please help......

[snaziwan]

help me Brian..... i`m new with linux and i try to publishing fedora at my place to technician, before that i need know first. i start with fedora core 8, download, burning .ISO, install and fedora ready......

by now i have this problem almost 5 day. my problem cannot connect to internet with firefox or another... the mesej appear 'cannot find server'

this is the way hardware use

hard wired via ethernet cable cat5 COB brand

1. from the modem prolink hurricane 9000
2. connet to hub model linksys sr2016 16port 10/100/1000 gigabit switch
3. extent to another hub linksys sd2008 8port 10/100/1000 gigabit switch

and to com

please so long i find this problem resolve plsssssssssssss

[snaziwan]

sorry for disturbing u and anyone who be this helper.... this is my mistake from installation that i not put the DNS, that make me cannot connect to internet...... so i wonder we can go to second problem that what i want to see, view,browse or copy the file from another com that use windows xp. open Place>Network
loading...... what was i can see just Windows Network and when open it, nothing there.......

i`m sorry for my past mistake and i hope u can help me for second one........

[m-rax]

One quick update : After many frustrating frustrating hours and fight against ghots (I am new to Linux) I am able to connect to internet. The steps I performed are mentioned below:

I went to control center -> Systems and -> Services

I enabled the following services : NetworkManager
NetworkManagerDispatch
Disabled the following service : ip6Tables

To be honest I am also not very sure what exactly happened as I ran some "n" no of commands taken from different websites. So I am keeping my fingers crossed. I hope these settings will last after restart also.

Will keep posting ....

[m-rax]

Hello,

Latest update: Good Newss : I am able to connect to Internet after rebooting without any difficulties. And the BAD News is that I am not able to open Add/ Remove software and I am receiving the following error:

================================================== ===============================================
Component: pirut
Summary: TB29ec97ad ini.py:563:readfp:UnboundLocalError: local variable 'line' referenced before assignment

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 476, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 469, in main
pm = PackageManager(options.config, options.onlyrepo)
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 63, in __init__
GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False, config)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 129, in __init__
plugin_types=(yum.plugins.TYPE_CORE,))
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 113, in doConfigSetup
errorlevel=errorlevel)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 164, in _getConfig
self.getReposFromConfig()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 229, in getReposFromConfig
parser.readfp(confpp_obj)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/iniparse/compat.py", line 106, in readfp
self.data.readfp(fp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/iniparse/ini.py", line 563, in readfp
if line and line[-1]=='\n':
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'line' referenced before assignment

Local variables in innermost frame:
pending_lines: []
fp: <yum.parser.ConfigPreProcessor instance at 0xa6049ec>
exc: None
self:
cur_section_name: None
linecount: 0
cur_option_name: None
fname: file://///etc/yum.repos.d/compiz-fusion.repo
cur_option: None
cur_section: None
================================================== ===============================================


Please Help :(

[dr3x]

I thing fedora 8 has some problem with network configuration. I have same problem too here. I just try fedora kde n gnome based desktop and installed into my computer..everything goes fine till computer is up n running. when the first time fedora running..both KDE n Gnome have same problem..my network card which i manually configure when the first time install fedora wont up..the network icon show the different ip information which i input before...including DNS information i input has gone..therefore i manually configure it again and again if fedora is being restart or shutdown. THe question is..why the network configuration of fedora 8 [i install it from fedora 8 live cd] wont save the ip and dns information given to it? So when fedora being restart or shutdown..i should not input manually again and again.. Anybody can help me please.....thanks.

[m-rax]

Some body please help ..... The problem re surfaced....... When I try to active internet it displays the error message " Determining IP information for eth0... failed; no link present. Check cable?"

But I am able to access internet on the same machine when booted in Windows with even looking at the cable ",.... Please help

[ya3goub]

hello all,,
appears there are a lot of newbies in the Linux field here, and I'm one of them. First of all no matter how cumbersome it is getting acquainted to Linux, but I'm waiting for the first chance to totally dump uncle Bill's OS. Now tell me ppl, there's this stupid ISP that I'm forced to use which allows us to connect to the Internet through a normal LAN cable with RJ-45 jacks from his ISA server which is our gateway, now since they suck, they don't give us IP addresses, just MAC Address authentication and a PPPoE dialup connection to their servers and access is granted. Now Linux doesnt allow this (in Windows I get the "Limited Connectivity" icon but totally working), in Linux it says that it cannot determine the IP address for eth0 and to check if cable is present, in addition to keeping the device inactive. Is there a way to play around this dilemma? And how can I create a connection? I'm using Fedora 8 with GNOME.

[nyjetshead]

If you are a desktop machine uninstall network manager you don't need it.
Yum uninstall NetworkManager

Go to system >administration >network
DNS tab put the address of your router in primary DNS if its not there.
Hardware tab:Check the status of your NIC should say OK
Devices tab:Highlight your device, click on edit.
Check Activate when computer starts,
Click radio Button automatically obtain IP with Select (DHCP)
Click Automatically obtain DNS info from provider.

Uncheck anything but what was given above.

Save the config file and reboot.

[Iron_Mike]

I wouldn't uninstall NetworkManager, by using "yum uninstall NetworkManager" it will remove a bunch of other dependencies and render the box inop, just disable the service by going to system ->administration ->services, and stopping the 2 NM services then unchecking the 2 boxes and save it. Next goto system ->administration ->network, highlight your device and click "edit" and enter the network configuration info and save it. Next highlight the device and click "activate" what happens????

[nyjetshead]

I second your suggestion regarding NM
Probably safer to do as you suggest. IE dependency issues...
I don't recall having that kind of trouble the last time I uninstalled it, certainly wont hurt the cause if its disabled.

[raiman]

hi m-rax

i ve exactly same problem as yours.and my motherboard is same as u too.its P5RD1-VM.i installed fedora 7 and failed to access the internet.i see u got rid of your problem with the help from brian.

what did u do infact?can u tell me.plz help me out