ICS & Debian

theshadow

Hi folks,
I'm a linux newbie so please be gently.
Anyway, I have a laptop running XP and ICS(internet connection sharing) and a PC (PIII 733Mz 128MB) running debian Sarge(2.4.26-l-386 and I'm having trouble access the internet via linux(KDE or GNOME). It's seems to work sometimes(I can reach www.debian.org) but even then it is very very slow. I think the network is fine as I can access files on the PC via "Windows Network".
Is there a GUI that will allow me to view and change my TCP/IP setting in Linux? Can't get netcfg or linuxconf to work.

Thanks in advance,
Mike.

nadir

theshadow wrote:

Hi folks,
I'm a linux newbie so please be gently.

NOOB
/me points

jk
seriously though, id suggest trying to give some more information, we really cant help unless you post some output. Especially with an intermittent problem like that.
open up a console , and give us the outputs of these commands

ifconfig

ping google.com

also try to ping the ip address

ping 216.239.37.99

if pinging the ip works but not the addy, you should set /etc/resolv.conf to a proper resolving server

lsmod

will show loaded kernel modules (including the module for your ethernet card)

route

will show current ip routing table

iptables --list

will show current iptables list (firewall stuff)

lspci or scanpci will show hardware info , and if you want to take a look through the logs for relevant stuff, have a look in /var/log/messages or just type dmesg. you will need to be loged on as root to do some of that stuff, and just so you know to get manuals man the command. like if you want to set a new ip, you can do ifconfig eth0 whateveripyou want,

so give us some info like that and maybe someone will have an answer.

theshadow

Cheers nadir. Changing the name server from 192.168.0.1(windows laptop) to 159.134.237.6(Eircom's Primary DNS) seems to have done the trick. BTW, I noticed I could only run those commands from Root Terminal, is this correct?
Also, I came across a kdenetwork package on the web last that looking like it might be useful from troubleshooting network issues however it is missing from my Control Centre so I thought I'd be real adventurous and try and install my first package.
I used the following command:

debian:/home/mike# apt-get install kdenetwork
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
kdenetwork is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
debian:/home/mike#

Do this mean it's already installed? If so, how do enable it?

Thanks in advance.

theshadow

Just found out Zonealarm on my laptop was the source of my original problem. It seems the latest version blocks the DNS service and you need the Pro version to disable it. Anyway, I removed the latest version and installed an old version and my linux is working fine with 192.168.0.1 as my nameserver.

nadir

yea, you got to be root to change system setting like networking stuff. It just wouldnt do if any user could have full write access, although some OS dont seem to have realised that yet

theshadow wrote:

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
debian:/home/mike#

Do this mean it's already installed? If so, how do enable it?

Thanks in advance.

yea, its installed, but im afraid I dont use kde so if its not in the menu or doesnt work from command line im at a loss!

edit: give full path? /usr/bin/kdenetwork ?? as root ???