Connect Linux box to the Internet via Linksys WRT54G router

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Mar 23 13:49:21 UTC 2005


On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 06:06:11PM -0500, Michael L Yang wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>  
> Good day!
>  
> I have just purchased a Linksys WRT54G router for my home network (one pc and one windows laptop). The pc has both WinXP and Redhat 7.3 on it. The wired connection is as below:
>  
>  
> PC ------------
>                   \
>                   WRT54G router ---- Rogers Modem ------Internet
>                   /
> Laptop-------
>  
> Under windows XP, both computers can access internet no problem. But when I switch to RH on the PC, the networking is not working at all. I can not even ping the router (192.168.1.1). I have turned on dhcp via 'Network Configuration'. I wonder whether some one could point me to the right direction.
>  
> Thank you for your time,

What does this give you:
ifconfig -a
route -n
cat /etc/sysconfig/<whatever looks like eth0 config file>

Lennart Sorensen
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