[Adiletante]

I currently have WinXP installed on one of my hard drives and I'm in the process of installing Red Hat 9 on my second drive - I had it installed once, but misunderstood the booting process with BootMagic and PartitionMagic, so lost access. In any case when I was able to boot into it, I wasn't able to get connected to the internet. I am totally a newbie when it comes to Red Hat and Linux, but I'm comfortable with learning new things.

I currently have a 10/100 TX Ethernet card -Linksys- which RedHat was able to recognize and this is connected to a router which is subsequently connected to my cable modem. I 'm using DHCP. I've come up with some possible solutions:

1. ping the router with linux (how does one get to the command line from the GUI?)
2. install the router onto the 2nd drive (how is this done in linux?)
3. and....?

If anyone would like to tell me whether I'm way off base or there might be something else to try, let me know.

Thanks much.

[lynch]

You need to log in to the router and make sure dhcp is enabled to get the router's IP. You do this through a web browser by typing the router's IP into the address bar, usually, depending on the router. There should also be an option to enable dhcp for the lan.
Look for a shell at the bottom of the desktop and click on that to get an xterminal or xconsole.
What router do you have?
HTH
lynch

[Regicide]

In order to have Linux recgonize your dhcp you have to type a command to have the router assign you an IP. I'm pretty sure that in Redhat the command is: "pump -i eth0". Mind you, the -i is telling it which network adapter to use. eth0 is the name of the card that is current pluged into the router. If it doesn't fail then you are now connected to the internet through the router.

[Adiletante]

Thanks for the help. I did actually get online using the internet connection feature in the GUI. I do need to learn more about Linux obviously. Thanks also for the tutorial links.

Adiletante