johnwoodrow

Hello, complete newbie here. I live in France and have been with Wanadoo for a good year now. Recently I have installed FC4 on my other computer (Kernel: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp) and I can't get it to work on the internet. The Modem is a Sagem F@st 3202 which is connected via USB, it came with a setup disk that I can't get to work. Aside from that I am incompetent as to know what to do at all. I will get my head around this all day by day, I am too used to the ease of Windows os', I appreciate the difficulties that come with a linux based os for incompetents like myself as they force me to get to know my system. Please help me.

Fixed it, I went out and bought an ethernet cable, plugged it in, went to network configuration, edit, selected 'automatically obtain ip address settings with dhcp', reset my computer and it worked. I did say I was incompetent didn't I? Thanks for your time, Danleff.

Thankyou so much for trying to help me. My account is always active with no need to sign in. I have 2 network devices on my computer and I believe both have ethernet capability, the first is an intel corporation 82547EI gigabit ethernet controller (LOM), and the second; Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139+ The livebox serial number is 3105019DPB01958 My system is self built, the motherboard a jetway altair g.

Originally posted by danleff: Quote: Originally posted by johnwoodrow: Quote: Hello, complete newbie here. I live in France and have been with Wanadoo for a good year now. Recently I have installed FC4 on my other computer (Kernel: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp) and I can't get it to work on the internet. The Modem is a Sagem F@st 3202 which is connected via USB, it came with a setup disk that I can't get to work. The disk that came with the modem...does it come with Linux drivers, or is it a driver disk for Windows only? In terms of Fedora, you have the version for a multi-processor system. Is this what you have? Is your ISP a DSL account that requires you to login to the account, or is it broadband? Does the ISp connect using dynamic assignment of the ip address or static ip? In general, Linux likes to connect via NIC cards, not USB modems, which are still poorly supported. Is there a NIC card in the system? I guess it's a disk for windows only, I can explore the disk but when I click on any .exe files I get the message 'Couldn't display "/media/cdrom/Livebox.exe".' I don't have a multi processor system, I have a pentium 4 2.8GHZ with Hyper Threading. Our account is broadband. I don't know whether the isp connects using dynamic assignment or static. How can I find out? What's an NIC card? I don't know. How can I find out? The computer is connected to the livebox via a type B to type A usb. There are also 2 ethernet ports on the livebox.