Configuring net in Fedora 12

Hello,

How difficult it is to live without internet… I had installed Fedora 12 on my machine and wanted to switch over from windows operating system to linux os.  But just installing fedora was not enough. I required almost 1 month to get internet connection configured in fedora. There are a lot many ways to configure net in fedora. I would like to share the ways I tried to do it. I am sure that these methods would definately help you getting your net connected in fedora. The methods are –

Method 1:

Go to terminal. Login as a root and type the command.

pppoe-setup

It will show the present dsl settings found on your system (if come settings were done earlier). And it will ask to enter the device name that you want to configure dsl settings, in that case enter the name of the device otherwise if you want to create a new then type n.

After that enter your bnsl connection username. It then asks for ethernet interface connected to pppoe modem (by default it is eth0).

Then make the settings according to your need by answering the questions. Then we give the ip address of our isp’s primary dns server. In my case i had given the ip address of bsnl that was 218.248.255.212 and the secondary dns server was 218.248.255.139.

It then asks for the password of the broadband connection. Then make the settings of authenticating all users of the machine to use the connection and firewall settings according to your need. Finally save all the settings. If all the above steps are followed properly it give a message saying….

“Congratulations, it should be all set up! ”

Thus your are done with configuring the settings now type the command to start the connection –

pppoe-start

Method 2 :

This method is specifically for bsnl connection. You may check your network address by browsing broadband router site on the url http://192.168.1.1/

In the top panel right click on the the network connection icon (which is shown by 2 computers), and then go to edit connections. In the wired tab select the system eth0 and then click the edit button as shown below.

Then select IP4v settings tab and select manual in the method. Then you can give the addresses according to your isp connection. In my case I had given the addresses as –

Address – 192.168.1.13

Network mask – 255.255.255.0

gateway – 192.168.1.1

Primary dns – 214.248.255.212

secondary dns – 214.248.25.139

Then click apply to save the changes.

After this goto DSL tab there create a new dsl connection by clicking the “Add” button. Goto DSL tab give your username and password for the broadband connection and save the changes.

Once you are done with this goto terminal and type the command to start the network services.

service network start

Method 3 :

If the above methods didn’t work for you. You can try putting the dns primary and secondary value as 192.168.1.1.

Hope the following methods may help you!! Thankyou for reading the blog. Any suggestions/comments are welcomed. If you have other different methods to configure the internet in fedora you may email me at pranoti210@gmail.com.