help with mandrake 8.2 (internet related)

[jachung]

Hi. I just installed mandrake 8.2 since I wanna learn a little bit about lnux. Yes I know this distro is not the latest one but it's ok. Anyway, here's my problem: I have cable internet which works fine on my windows partition but I dont know how to make it work under linux. Consider that Im a noob when it comes to linux. I need something like a tutorial or something. I have a 10mbps 3com etherlink III ISA connected to my cable modem and a d-link 10/100 mbps PCI connected on my home network. When mandrake boots when it comes to the eth0 it shows "FAILED" which I guess it means that it doent see it or something like that.

Please I wanna learn how to use this OS so please give me a hand with this

thanks

[BaVinic]

OK, I will take a stab at this,
When you setup Linux, did you set an IP adress for your machine? or did you setup DHCP?

Let's start there.

BaVinic

[viperlin]

if i understand correctly that you have 2 network cards, i assume eth0 is your internet network card so most DSL ISP's require it set to DHCP so do that in the mandrake control centre.

[jachung]

I try both static IP and dhcp client. im gonna go and try dhcp again just in case i did something wrong. brb


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Nevermind guys I finally got it working. Thanks a lot to you all

just one more question. Now that I have setup mandrake. What should I try to learn first