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Newbie Question



Hello

/etc/resolve.conf is empty

ifconfig shows:
eth0 link encal:Ethr H/Ware addr 00:04:5A::A4:E0:4F
inet addr: 192.168.0.11 Bcst:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP Broadcast RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Rx Pkts:25 errors:0 dropped overruns:0
Tx Pkts:4 errors:0 dropped overruns:0
Collision:0
RXbytes:1900  TXbytes:240
Intrp:3 Baseaddr:0x300

lo:
lo link encap:local loopback
UP Loopback RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:16436 Metric:1
Rx Pkts:16 errors:0 dropped overruns:0
Tx Pkts:16 errors:0 dropped overruns:0
Collision:0 txqueuelength:0
RXbytes:9384  TXbytes:9384

That's it, what am I supposed to see here ?

thanks
-k


> 
> From: "Dwight A. Ernest" <dwight at significant.com>
> Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 01:42:32 EST
> To: karina.popkova at verizon.net
> CC: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: Newbie Question
> 
> Karina,
> 
> Show us an output from 'netstat -rn'.
> 
> karina.popkova at verizon.net wrote:
> 
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have an old laptop, dual-boot
> > with Win 98 and RH 7.3, both work fine ...
> > 
> > Just got a PCMCIA Network Card (10/100)
> > for  it. Booted into Linux, router blinks,
> > and dmseg checks for new hardware.
> > 
> > Netstat command shows connections.
> > 
> > Brought up Netscape (and/or Mozilla) 
> > tried to connect to outside world via 
> > Netscape  but get errors.
> > 
> > Actually, router that I am connected to,
> > is on DSL, and other machine gets out to 
> > Internet as normal ...
> > 
> > So I assume that we are almost there with Laptop???
> > 
> > What is wrong or needs to be configured ?
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > Karina
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> 
> -- 
> Dwight A. Ernest, dwight at significant dot com    GPG key A6999567
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> 
> 






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