Can't connect to the internet

[Nikolas Britton]

Sandbox Video Productions wrote:

>I'm can't connect to the internet. I have my computer
>connected to a router via NIC. the lights on the
>router are lit and so are the lights on the NIC. Thus,
>I know i have a connection. I tried ping -c 10
>192.168.1.1 and all i got was 
>ping: sendto: No route host
>
>I can't seem to find a simple to tutorial on this
>specific problem of just connecting to the internet
>through a router. I have found how to make your pc a
>router and connecting via serial cables and modems,
>but this is different. 
>Please help or point me to a specific online manual.
>thanks very much
>
Does the computer have an ip address?
Is defaultrouter set in rc.conf?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html