No Internet Connection

["Randall Scott" <kh7eh hawaii rr com>]

Previously I couldn't activate the Ethernet card via the GUI.  After
trying several suggestions from this list, it is now active.  Not
exactly sure what I did to activate but, followed the following:

	ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
	route add default gw 192.168.1.1

Now I try to ping the Linksys router by with: "ping -c 5 192.168.1.1"
and receive the following:

	5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% loss, time 4000ms
	rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.058/0.065/0.084/0.011 ms

Other information you may need to help me sort this out:

Eth0 RealTek 8139a using 8139too driver.
>From eth0 to linksys router to cable modem.
Everything should be DHCP.

When I read the Linksys troubleshooting documentation (of course for
Windows) it says to run winipcfg to determine the IP address of the
computer.  Should have an ip address of 192.168.1.xxx (xxx is between
2-254).  Other computers linked to this router use 100, 101, 102 and
103.  What is the comparable command in RH8.0?  

When I open the browser and try to access http://192.168.1.1 it comes
back with "the connection was refused when attempting to connect
192.168.1.1".

Please educate me so I can get this going.