<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv285193296">Here is a continuation of my efforts. I really appreciate the help.<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>>Patrick wrote:<br>> Did you try another browser to see if it works with the other sites?<br><br>I installed and tried Dillo. It said "Query sent Waiting for reply"<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>> Rick Stevens wrote<br><br>> Here's one way to troubleshoot it:<br><br>> Using FireFox, see if you can get to the cable modem's GUI interface.<br>> Most of them will have one of the following four IPs as their default:<br><br>> 192.168.0.1<br>> 192.168.0.254<br>> 192.168.1.1<br>> 192.168.1.254<br><br>tried all of those with
no luck<br><br>> The first thing you should do is make sure your NIC can access all of<br>> those addresses without using a gateway. As root in
a console:<br><br>> ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.128 netmask 255.255.0.0<br><br>> This puts your computer on the class B (CIDR /16) network of 192.168.0.0<br>> and you should be able to hit any of the above four addresses directly<br>> (in fact, any IP from 192.168.0.1 through 192.168.255.254).<br><br>>Next, try "http://192.168.0.1" and see if you get the modem's GUI. If<br>> you don't, try the other three IPs above. If it's none of those, check<br>> the manual for the modem and see what the default LAN IP is. Make sure<br>> you get the LAN IP, _NOT_ the WAN IP (anything on the WAN side is the<br>> cable company's side of the connection).<br><br>tried all the above, with no luck. The manual does not mention a "LAN IP" that I can find. It does not mention a GUI.<br><br>> If you can browse the IP, then you know that at least your machine and<br>> your modem can communicate. Wander
through the modem's user interface<br>> looking for its DHCP server settings. Make sure the DHCP server is<br>> enabled and take note of which addresses it will offer (usually called<br>> the "pool").<br><br><br>> At this point, you should be able to have the modem give you an IP.<br>>Make sure your system is set up to fetch an IP address via DHCP and<br>> either reboot your system, restart NetworkManager (if you use it):<br><br>> service NetworkManager restart<br><br><br>> Once that's all done, again as root in a console, do:<br><br>> ifconfig eth0<br><br>> and verify it has an IP address that's in the range described by the<br>> pool data you got before. If that's all good, do:<br>> netstat -rn<br><br>It returned "Forwarding is ON or its state is unknown (5). OK, No RDISC.<br>Missing IP address argument."<br><br><br><br>it returned:<br>Kernel IP
routing table<br>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface<br>192.168.122.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 virbr0<br><br>> and verify that the line that contains the flags "UG" is the same<br>> IP as the cable modem. Example:<br><br>> 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0<br>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>> IP of cable modem<br><br>> If all that checks out, then you SHOULD
have a live connection to the<br>> Internet. The last thing to check is your /etc/resolv.conf file and<br>> ensure that the "nameserver" lines have legitimate IP addresses for<br>> live DNS servers. This should be set up when the DHCP server gives you<br>> the IP address and default route, but not always. If it doesn't set<br>> this up, you could manually add entries. Here's a couple of entries you<br>> can use:<br><br>> nameserver 208.67.222.222<br>> nameserver 208.67.220.220<br><br> I tried adding those to the top of the list of nameservers, and restarted firefox - no change . I then rebooted and they sre gone from resolv.conf again.<br><br>Hope that helps a bit.<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>- Rick Stevens, Systems
Engineer ricks@nerd.com -<br>- AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 -<br>- -<br>- Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right -<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>I am
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stuck. I seem to have a dedicated Google machine. I can check my mail at gmail.com, including loading messages ( I haven't tried to send one yet) The google search in Firefox works fine. GoogleEarth wiorks well -- and I still can't reach any other sites: And it all works fairly well in Windows XP ( it is still Windows! winipcfg doesn't work. There is a screwed up .dll, apparently )<br>It seems to me that it might be in the nameserver somewhere. I suspect the modem maker did something odd in the driver and furnished it to Microsoft and won't release it now. I saw that the USBnet programmers do not have a driver for this modem.<br> How can it work OK with google and have a configuration problem in my setup?<br><br>------------------------------<br><br></div></td></tr></table>