No network connection (Lewis Jessup)

[David Wiener]

Lewis,

Sounds like it may be routing.  Look at your routing table by entering 
'route' at the command line of a terminal.

You should see several lines, the last of which is 'default' and should 
have an IP address in the gateway column.

This tell the tcp/ip in your system where to go when it wants to connect 
to the rest of the world.

If that is working, then perhaps you have a dns issue.  In that case 
enter this at the command line:

cat /etc/resolve.conf

This will tell you where your system is getting its DNS info.  There are 
(should be) IP addresses listed here.

If there are, try this command:

traceroute [ip address from the list]

This will tell you if you are able to reach your dns servers.

So -

If you do not have a default gateway in your routing table, then your 
modem is not giving out that info.  If you know the address of your 
router you can manually add the gateway:

[as root] route add default gw [ip address of the router]

If your DNS tables are empty, then, once again, your router is not 
feeding you what it should.

Regards,

David



On 05/07/2010 10:28 PM, Lewis Jessup wrote:
> I need help on DSL I have tried everything I can ping mu modem and tet 
> all of the data.  I'm able to get to smoe of the preset sites in 
> Mozilla.  Modem works fine with WinXP.  Can you direct me to somewhere 
> I can look up Information.
> I'm with "att" and have a Motorola modemusing Fedora 12.  Worked fine 
> with Fedora 9 but when I upgraded Cannot conect.
> Lewis Jessup
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