I have a broadband modem connected to a linksys cable/DSL router. Everything was fine when I was running Windows on all the machines. I installed RH 7.2 on my comp and I cannot figure out how to get it to access the internet. I cannot even ping other computers on the network and other computers cannot ping my linux box. I have looked through books and tried everything I can possibly think of! Please help.

did you check to see if your adapter is even compatable w/ linux? and if it is, is it mapped to a protocol over your cable?

I have the router set up as a DHCP server. So I don't understand how it couldn't be compatible. But whenever I try to ping any other computer or the router itself, it says Network unreachable.

I have a nearly identical setup, except I have a dual-boot system using Win98 and SuSE 7.3. When I was running SuSE 7.2, I had no problems. Over the weekend, I wiped the Linux drive and upgraded to 7.3 - now the internet connection under Linux doesn't work. Under 7.2, all I had to do was setup my network card and I had instant internet access. With 7.3, I setup my network card but I have no access to the internet. It clearly setup the card correctly and the router is obviously talking to it, because I can see through YaST2 that it was assigned an IP by the router. But no internet. I've been doing a little reading online, and it looks like the newest kernel has some new network stuff in it. Refer to http://netfilter.samba.org/unreliable-guides/NAT-HOWTO/index.html for more information. I'm still trying to decipher it all. If anyone has some insights for us, it would be appreciated.