Upgraded FC4 to FC5 - no access to internet

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue May 29 01:31:05 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 17:07 +0000, philbrog at ptd.net wrote:
> I copied the DNS1, DNS2, and DNS3 addresses from my router settings
> into the FC5 network admin gui, and also copied the ISP's domain name
> from the router settings into the FC5 network admin gui, saved the
> settings, restarted the network service, and FC5 now has access to the
> internet.
> 
> Why didn't FC5 pick them up automatically?  Will I have to do this the
> next time I re-boot? 

Does your router also act as a DHCP server?  If so, Fedora should have
picked up as much settings from it as it offered.  If it doesn't supply
everything that's needed, that'd be why you're up the creek.

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(This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's
 important to the thread.)

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