How do you connect to the Internet in Linux?

Answer 1

ifconfig is he command common to all Linux distrobutions. In order to use it, you have to know in advance what your IP information should be. To set your ip address to 192.168.1.100, with a standard class C netmask you would do this:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100

If you have a DHCP server installed in your network, or if your home router has a DHCP server, you should use a DHCP client to connect to the network. There are two common DHCP clients. dhclient, and dhcpcd. Their usage is mostly the same:

dhcpcd eth0

or

dhclient eth0

The methods described above will work on any distribution, but as you can see it requires you to manually type commands every time. You will have to check with your distrobution to get specific instructions, but most distributions have a 'network manager' that does that sort of thing for you.

In Ubuntu, you can just click on the network manager icon and select Wired Network or pick a wireless network. On Slackware, you can type netconfig at the command line and it will walk you through setup of a wired network. Setup of wireless networks in Slackware can be tricky if you don't have a network manager installed. The best thing to do would be to Google the name of your distribution and network or internet.

Answer 2

Connecting Internet in all Linux OS (ubuntu, fedora, red hat, etc) in( Gnome, Kde, etc)

follow the link below

http://bit.ly/987oT6

This one is helpful if you have DSL modem connected to your ethernet port. If yours is dialup also, above link will work. otherwise type wvdial in terminal.

Answer 3

type in terminal : sudo pppoeconf