[gobolinux-users] configuration internet access

[Jonas Karlsson]

2007/1/19, balazs gellert <gellba at gmail.com>:
> Hi Gobo-friends,
>
> Thanks for your advice. I have just realized that what should be the
> reason for my problem that I am not able to access net. The reason for
> that I have to use pppoe (with login name and password) to connect the
> net. So I installed ppp and rp-pppoe package onto my Gobo and edited
> the pppoe config file. The first problem was that after installing the
> pap-secrets and chap-secrets file was not generated, so I created them
> manually and edited them with the proper login name and password.
> After that I tried to connect to the net but I failed. I do not know
> the reason for the failure. Maybe I should add my login data to the
> NetworkOptions file as well, shouldn't I? Any idea?
> Thanks for any help!
>
Did you use Compile or InstallPackage to install rp-pppoe? If you used
the former, can you tell if you did everything in
/Programs/RP-PPPoE/Current/Shared/doc/rp-pppoe-3.8/HOW-TO-CONNECT?

/Jonas

> 2007/1/11, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se>:
> > 2007/1/10, balazs gellert <gellba at gmail.com>:
> > > Hi,
> > > i've recently installed GoboLinux 013 onto my PC. My problem that I
> > > couldn't configure internet :(  I followed GoboWiki description about
> > > how to set NetworkOptions file. I suppose according to  my ifconfig I
> > > should have to be connected to the internet, but indeed I am not able
> > > to reach internet :(
> > > After typing ifconfig, the response:
> > > # ifconfig -a
> > > th0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:85:B3:46:5F
> > >           BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> > >           RX packets:27257 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >           TX packets:106 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> > >           RX bytes:1635836 (1.5 Mb)  TX bytes:6860 (6.6 Kb)
> > >           Interrupt:177 Base address:0xa000
> > >
> > > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> > >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> > >           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
> > >           RX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >           TX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > >           RX bytes:11264 (11.0 Kb)  TX bytes:11264 (11.0 Kb)
> > >
> > > sit0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
> > > 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> > >           NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
> > >           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> > >
> > > What can be the problem?
> > >
> > As Paul said, well not black on white but he inciniated it, you don't
> > have an IP. I guess you've missed an 'e' on that first card and it
> > should be 'eth0'.
> >
> > First you should check to see that everything is correct in
> > /System/Settings/NetworkOptions. My file looks like this:
> >
> > ---%<-----------------------------------------
> > HostName=hermes
> >
> > NetworkInterfacesOnBoot=(
> >   "lo"
> >   "eth0"
> > )
> >
> > lo_IP=127.0.0.1
> > lo_Netmask=255.0.0.0
> >
> > #eth0_BootProto=Static   # DHCP (requires DHCPCD package), Static
> > (default if empty)
> > #eth0_IP=192.168.20.4
> > #eth0_NetMask=255.255.255.0
> > #eth0_Broadcast=
> > eth0_BootProto=DHCP   # DHCP (requires DHCPCD package), Static
> > (default if empty)
> >
> > Gateway=192.168.20.1
> > GatewayInterface=eth0
> > --->%------------------------------------------
> >
> > Of course you can change 'eth0' to 'sit0' in the example above, if
> > 'sit0' is your primary network interface.
> >
> > You shold also make sure that you have the DHCPCD package installed,
> > if your network interface should get its IP from a DHCP server.
> >
> > --
> > /Jonas