Newbie Question

[karina.popkova at verizon.net (karina.popkova at verizon.net)]

/etc/resolv.conf file is empty file ...

route -n shows:

Destination   Gateway    GenMask        Flags  Metric  Ref  UseIf
192.168.0.0   0.0.0.0    255.255.255.0    U      0      0    eth0
127.0.0.0     0.0.0.0    255.0.0.0        U      )      )    lo

tell me more!

thanks




> 
> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 04:09:06 EST
> To: <karina.popkova at verizon.net>
> CC: "Dwight A. Ernest" <dwight at significant.com>,  <discuss at blu.org>
> Subject: Re: Newbie Question
> 
> <karina.popkova at verizon.net> writes:
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > /etc/resolve.conf is empty
> 
> Try /etc/resolv.conf (not resolve -- there is no 'e')
> 
> Also, what do you get from:
> 
>   route -n
> 
> > 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
> [snip]
> 
> > That's it, what am I supposed to see here ?
> 
> This shows that you have an IP address, you've sent 4 packets
> and received 25, which is good.
> 
> > thanks
> > -k
> 
> -derek
> 
> >> 
> >> 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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