Network is WORKING

[jo mojo]

Thanks guys, finally I got it working. I have to manually add in the DNS 
name, which is my smc router address (192.168.2.1). I copied from windows 
machine.

Jonathan,
   there is a GUI to the network setting. Actually there are many ways to 
get to the same window.
1. Start Menu ==> System & Settings ==> Network
   then Network Configuration window pop-up. Click on the DNS tab and fill 
in the Primary DNS input box, use Secondary DNS if has more than one. Since 
mine is my gateway (router not modem), I just need to input Primary DNS

2. Start Menu ==> Network Device Control
   Choose the network interface (in my case eth0) and click on configure. 
Same window as in 1) above pop-up

3. On Desktop, click on StartHere, then System Settings.
   This is actually the exact same thing as 1) above.

Jonathan,
  that Network Configuration (click on edit) I mentioned on 1) does have:
automatically IP address settings with dhcp, also
I checked the "Automatically obtain DNS information from provider"
but it doesn't work until I manually input Primary DNS (see 1. above)

I couldn't find the GUI to do route/ default gateway. I think this is one of 
the crucial step. Thank you very much, Duane.

Once again, thank you very much, guys.

cheers,
  JOhannes

>From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at opus1.com>
>To: 'Duane Attaway' <dattaway at attaway.net>, jo mojo <johan_yo at hotmail.com>
>CC: Kansas City Linux Users Group <kclug at kclug.org>
>Subject: RE: RH 8.0 Network not working
>Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:53:29 -0500
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Duane Attaway [mailto:dattaway at attaway.net]
>
> > This is good.  Now all you need is to know the address for
> > the gateway.
> > The gateway address is where all your packets going out to
> > the real world
> > get funneled through:
>
> > /sbin/route add default gw 192.168.2.1 eth0
> >
> > if that is the address of your cable modem, router, or
> > whatever is the
> > gateway device to your internet.
>
>The thing is with a post-1990 distribution, you shouldn't have to manually
>add a route.  This should be done by the init scripts, pulling the info 
>from
>the DHCP server.
>
>Johannes, have you done any configuration on the machine post-install?  Do
>you remember what you picked for the network when installing?
>
>I prefer to do all system configuration directly, using the text files that
>control a standard SysV startup rather than GUI utilities, but I think in
>your RH Control Panel you'll find a network configuration utility.  What 
>you
>need to do is set it to pull all of your network info from the router via
>DHCP.

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