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Network Unreachable

Here is some output from my system:

/etc/route.conf:

24.2.244.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 eth0
default 24.2.244.1

lsmod:

Module Size Used by
SMC-Ultra 3980 1 (autoclean)
8390 5732 0 (autoclean) [smcultra]
serial 41940 0 (autoclean)
memstat 1412 0 (autoclean)

ifconfig:

eth0 Link encap: Ethernet Hwaddr: 00:E0:29:19:CC:4E
inet addr: 24.2.247.110 Bcast: 24.2.247.255 Mask:
255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric: 1
RX: packets: 0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overrun: 0 frame: 0
TX: packets: 0 errors: 2 dropped: 0 overrun: 0 carrier: 0
collision: 0 txqueulen: 100
Interrupt: 10 Base address: 0x290 Memory: c8000-ca000

lo Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 3925 Metric: 1
RX: packets: 0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overrun: 0 frame: 0
TX: packets: 35 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overrun: 0 carrier: 0
collisions: 0 txqueulen: 0

SuSE Linux uses Yast to configure all the important attributes of your system and then writes the information provided to the important config files. I entered all my address'(IP, DNS, router) the way they are in
Windows98. I even used the NetDiagnostic tool provided by @home to make sure I was using the right information, and I was. As I said, I can ping 24.2.247.110(my IP) and it works ok. I can ping 127.0.0.1 ok. That's
obvious. But when I try to ping the @home router(24.2.244.1) I get nothing. When I try to ping a known IP address on the Net, nothing. I restart the
network(/sbin/init.d/network stop/start) and the route(/sbin/init.d/route stop/start) and it works fine. No failure messages. However, earlier when I added the above address' to /etc/route.conf and stopped and restarted the
route I would ge the following message:

error while executing
/sbin/route del default gw 24.2.244.1
SIOCDELRT: no such process failed

But it hasn't done that since. Never again have I gotten that message.
When I do a netstat -r I get nothing.

I know my network card is PnP disabled. I downloaded the DOS utility and spent a half hour making sure it was in Windows. So I know that's not the problem. When I did a isapnpdump it didn't show up, so I know it worked. I
do not have a /etc/isapnp.conf file though. Don't need it.

I could really use some advice as to why my machine refuses to see the outside world. I am completely baffled.

TIA.

Dave Nandell

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hamadamoh

I'm using @home and after many hours of playing around and checking hundreds of websites I manaaged to get up and running but manually I'm still trying to figure out how to get it running at bootup... I need to figure out what files to edit...Any way.

Rogers in my area uses DHCP server to assign Ip address, although my ip has not changed since I joined rogers. Manual configuration as you did, didn't work for me either. Try this.

******** IMPORTANT *****
1. use netcfg to configure your networkcard to use DHCP. Don't try to activated from the console that didn't work for me...Make sure that there's no default gateway and that all your DNS are empty.. i.e. clear all the parameters you enter it manually and just have your networkcard configured for DHCP

2. Type in your xterm
dhcpcd -h rogers_computer_name
******** IMPORTANT ******

where rogers_computer_name is the name that rogers provided you with..
If this works then your are at the same stage as I.

All I have to do now is make sure that update all the files that linux goes through to intiate your network card.

Good luck

hamada
hamadamoh@hotmail.com