On 10/21/05, J G <iipreca at hotmail.com> wrote: > Guys > I am a new user to Linux (windoze can take a hike) have an older system > with a D Link NIC and I am running Red Hat Fedora Core 4 which I got from > the DVD that came with Red Hate Fedora and Enterprise Linux 4 Bible which I > did a full install from, so everything is installed. I have satellite > internet and a Linksys WRT54G router which I have plugged into the system. I > am using KDE as my desktop and the system can't get onto the internet. I > installed the NIC and its all there, when I attempt to activate it in > Network Configuration I get an error that says "Determining IP information > for eth0...dhclient(1543) is already running -exiting. exiting. failed." and > thats the end of it, now I whipped out the book and started reading the > network troubleshooting section and it mentions that if the the dhcp server > is running it wont work very nicely with a dhcp router? I'm fairly new to > networking, but I understand the basics really well, can anyone help me out? > from what I can tell from the system the dhcp server isn't running and > doesnt start with boot, which it shouldent from a fresh install right? any > help is appreciated. Hiya Zed. Are you sure that your network card has been detected correctly? Can you run the following two commands and reply with their output? $ ifconfig and $ lsmod -Erik