I appreciate your reply to my email. The steps ou have given me are things that I have done and are already in place. I still cannot get the eth to activate unless I issue it a static IP it for some reason will not activate under the DHCP selection. Has anyone ever experienced this. If I do assign it an IP it will activate but still has no internet connection. I can ping itself but cannot ping any machine outside of it or have a machine outside be able to ping it. Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Joey Mendez <jmendez at ucsd.edu> wrote: > >> I am totally new to using CentOS. Linux in Genera really. I have decent >> experiencing with terminal code for Macs though. >> > > Jose: Welcome! > > >> Here's the deal my Boss wants us to move more toward linux for some of our >> basic users. All I was supposed to do was install CentOS 5.2 and Open Office >> and disburse the machines. Simple enough right. So I did this with no issue. >> I ran the interface and installed only GNOME and KDE. After installation was >> complete I activated the eth-0 and had it on DHCP. I connected to the net >> fine and began downloading open office. I left for the day and came back and >> I can no longer get back online. The eth-0 wont even activate unless I >> manually enter a static IP but still can not establish a connection online. >> I treid reinstalling to no avail. Even built a completely new box and still >> no avail. I am using CentOS 5.2 i386 DVD. >> >> Like I said I am new to this so any guidance would be appreciated to get me >> into the Linux world. Thank you. >> > > Linux is based on UNIX and networking started there. Networking will > work for you! > > I normally install both GNOME and KDE, but 99% of the time, I use GNOME. When I > install from a DVD, I install the majority of Applications and Systems > things I want at > that time. Then, in a Terminal Window (as root), do "yum update" to > update everything > to the latest version, for Security and Stability reasons. > > In GNOME, at the lower left hand corner, click on System > > Administration >Network and enter the password for root (the super > user). > That brings you to a GUI utility called system-config-network Be sure > that eth0 is shown as "Active" and then highlight it and click on > "Edit". Be sure that "Activate Device when computer starts is > checked". And, "Automatically obtain IP with DHCP". And, Automatically > obtain DNS. > > A book I can recommend to you, would be the edition that covers Red > Hat Enterprise Linux 5, of "Red Hat Fedora and Enterprise Linux > Bible" by Christopher Negus. I'm sure that there are other excellent > books, but this one will explain a lot to you. I think the version > that covers RHEL 5 (CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL) is "Fedora 6 and Red > Hat Enterprise Linux Bible", however you need to verify that, before > you buy it, because I have an older version of the book. Please note > that much of the book is about Fedora Core. Red Hat Enterprise Linux > takes the best of Fedora Core and is a much more stable distribution, > without the "latest and greatest". So, the book will help you with > CentOS, because CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL. > > HTH, Lanny in Colombia > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > . > > -- Jose Mendez Computer Resource Specialist HNRC 619-543-8090 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080919/179bfd92/attachment-0005.html>