I'm new to the Linux game sp please bear with me. I installed Red Hat 8 on my machine running XP pro on Microsoft Virtual PC. The install went pretty ok but I am having problems connecting to the internet. I configured my netwk card both manually and using DHCP but with no success. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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Jump to PostPlease paste the output of ifconfig so I can see the cirrent configuration for eth0
Example:
root@loaclhost# ifconfig eth0 > ~/ifconfig.txt
Then paste the contents of ifconfig.txt.
Jump to PostNP :)
I'll be here if you have any more questions...
Jump to PostWhich NIC is installed under MS VirtualPC? Does it have access to the Internet? Is it a shared connection with your system's actual NIC?
The stdout from your ifconfig shows that packets are being sent AND received, with no errors, which makes me think it has to do with …
Jump to PostOK, do me a flavor and describe your setup to me. I'm old, ya know :)
Seriously, please describe your network setup. I understand you are running Linux in a virtual machine using MS VirtualPC, but what's the other system? Windows? Linux?
You can't see the system itself, …
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