Hello there. I am new to the Linux operating system, and have just installed Redhat Linux 7.0 with a few small problems. Now that I can get into the GUI I have a better Idea of what to do, but I am still very stuck. My problem is that I cannot access my LAN, in order to get to the internet. I am hooked up to a cable modem (@home system) that goes into my router/hub, and is split to 4 computers. I have tried a million things to try and get my Linux computer to get access to the TCP\IP portion of it. I don't need to be able to see the other comps, or have them see me, but being online is a must. I am quite new, and don't really know how to configure it right, but I have tried many different configurations in linux. I am not sure if Linux is detecting my Lynksys ethernet card or not. I havn't done any kind of driver installation. And I don't know how too if that was whats needed! If anyone could kindly aid me, and perhaps guide me through the process, I would REALLY appreciate it! Thanks in advance! James

First of all you are going to need to find out exactly which driver to use for your linksys network card. Try looking here: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.24 If it is not a PCI card then you are going to have to find out which io and irq address to use. Next edit the file /etc/conf.modules In it you should add the following lines: alias eth0 tulip options tulip io=0x300 irq=10 tulip would be the name of the network driver you should use. The last line is only necessary if you have to set the io and irq settings make sure you fill in the right values there. Check the file /etc/sysconfig/network and make sure the following line is present: NETWORKING=yes I am supposing you are using static ip addresses for your internal network. If so then edit or create the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to look like this: DEVICE=eth0 IPADDR=192.168.0.4 # The assigned IP NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes If you got all that you should have a connection to the rest of your lan. Mik

Allrighty I'll try that. I actually do have a PCI NIC, so do I leave out the IRQ and IO? hhmm, Thats one thing I have learned in my little time messing with linux, there are many ways to do the same thing! Okay, well wish me luck! -James

I tried to get an Acer aln325 nic working in mandrake 6.2 and somehow it corrupted the eeprom on the card. Then the card wouldn't work in windows either until I figured out how to re-flash the darned thing.