network bootup problems

calvarymanagua · #1 26th June 2006, 12:57 AM

I am having problems booting up in FC5. If I boot up, it hangs up on cups, sendmail, and then it never gets to the login screen. It will load everything and then give a black screen with the mouse cursor. However it waits here forever. If I do an interactive setup and say no to ISDN, networking, Firestarter, than cups and sendmail go fast, but I still cannot access the login screen.

My setup is I have a wireless card that is using the Ndiswrapper driver. I have been able to activate it and see it on my access point. However, i have not been able to access the internet. I also have another network card that I was going to use as a gateway. I think I might have an issue with IP addresses. I am not an expert. '
I have a linkys wireless router, that is connected to the internet. To that I have a 24 port hub. To that I have a linkys wireless access point. This sends a signal accross the street to my wireless card, where I want to setup the gateway. I have a windows machine with a wireless card and everything works fine. Any ideas where to start. The problem all started when I started messing with my IP addresses in the wireless card.

Also, how do I edit the configuration of the network card settings from terminal? I tried typing system-config-network and it only allowed me to setup the ethernet card and not the wireless. Also, I could not disable it.
How do I changed my starting services from terminal. I tried system-config-services, but it requires the gui?/

Thanks
Brian

calvarymanagua · #2 26th June 2006, 04:56 PM

I found the problem,

my Primary and secondary DNS settings were wrong.

I looked in my router to what it was set for and put those numbers in the Primary and secondary DNS lines and it worked. I am fairly new to all this and don't really know what that means, but it works fine now.