Hi, just to check, did you configure Netscape?. In otherwords go to the Netscape tool bar, click on edit, click on preferences and put in the IP addresses in mail server for your ISP. For some reason I have noticed that Netscape will not connect without that information. I may be all wet but this is what it seemed needed doing in two cases of my own installations . Luck, Dennis M.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 11:27 AM
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Subject: [newbie] Making DHCP work
Hi!
I subscribed to Road Runner (cable using DHCP) two weeks ago and am still
not able to use it...
I got rid of my first problem (making eth0 work) thanks to two Linux
angels, Michael and Greg, that I thank again.
Now here is what's happening:
* Eth0 seems to work like a charm (IRQ and IO are specified for eth0, the
boot says "OK" after "Configuring the Eth0 interface" and so on)
* DHCPCD has been configured, and also seems to work. Indeed, when I type
"dhcpcd" it says "already running".
* When I use the command "ifconfig", I have a nice inet adress for eth0.
* The "online" led of the cable modem they provided is flashing on and off.
BUT
* When I open netscape and type "www.linux.org" or any other adress it
answers "unable to locate the server bla bla bla".
I did not configure myself DHCPCD or any connection, I let Mandrake do it:
In Netconf, I simply used the "Basic Host Information" tab, enabling DHCP.
I didn't touch the other tabs as I do not understand that Networking stuff.
I guess there is something to do, and I am pretty sure it is something very
simple, but I don't know what...
[My computer features a Pentium 733, 128 RAM, Tyan Trinity 400 motherboard.
Good stuff.]
I thank the Linux angels who will save my computer life again!
Nicolas
