<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV>If you can get you DSL working for (horrors) Windoze, you can check the settings and use them for Linux, including DSS servers, gateway etc... At a DOS prompt, run ipconfig /all</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> Jeffery Cann</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, June 16, 2002 8:01 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> clue-tech@clue.denver.co.us</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CLUE-Tech] DSL setup question</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>On Saturday 15 June 2002 11:22 pm, Jeff Hill wrote:<BR>> I'm trying to set up my linux box to use my earthlink dsl<BR>> connection. The connection goes from the wall to a router to a switch<BR>> then one line goes to my windows box and one line goes to my linux box.<BR>> I'm using SuSE 7.3 and I can ping the router, but can't seem to connect<BR>> to the internet. I've read some man pages and HowTo's on networking,<BR>> but I'm still kinda lost. Does anyone have any pointers on what I might<BR>> be screwing up?<BR><BR>Is the router supplying dhcp client IPs for your local network? If yes, have<BR>you set up the linux box to query the dhcp server (in this case running on<BR>your router)? This will configure the network card on the linux box<BR>automatically and then things should work.<BR><BR>If you don't know the answer to this question, try this command and post the<BR>output back to the list:<BR><BR>$ /sbin/ifconfig<BR><BR>Also, be sure to do a '$ man ifconfig' so you can learn a bit about this<BR>utility,<BR><BR>Jeff<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>CLUE-Tech mailing list<BR>CLUE-Tech@clue.denver.co.us<BR>http://clue.denver.co.us/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>