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[Milan]

iam trying to install dsl. im using drake 8.1 with netgear 310.
when i run hard drake, my network card isnt listed but i do see an unknown device callesd national semi conductor.
under control center, i see my card listed as national semi etc, status up.i also installed roaring penguin, and the dns server. when i start adsl, it says connected but konqueror cant access any pages.
how do i know if i have a net connection? i tried ping msn.com to no avail.
i also show adsl process running under pid.
can anyone help?
thank you

[tiw]

Hi,

First thing you should do is try to open a terminal window. Run the command /sbin/ifconfig, and see what the output of that gives you. You should see some information about eth0 if the card is correctly configured. If nothing is there, try typing in cat /proc/pci and try to see if any information about a network card is there. If not hte card could be installed incorrectly.

[sixfeetsix]

I have dsl and I use rp-pppoe... or something like that.

Did you try that?

Try it to see, type "adsl-setup" to configure your connection.

If there is nothing, you need to install the package.

After you configured it, type "adsl-start".
To stop, it is "adsl-stop".

[jrbush82]

I'm a Slackware user myself, but try looking at the Linux Hardware Database... www.linuxhardwaredatabase.com (http://www.linuxhardwaredatabase.com) and see if your Network card is listed. If so, then it should tell you what you need to know to get it working.

[jrbush82]

Ah, I did the looking myself, yes it is, it has a good rating too... check here... (http://www.linuxhardwaredatabase.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?3) Anyway, it says is uses the tulip.o driver, which is what mine uses too, so you need to modprobe your tulip driver on start, and see if maybe that works... Good Luck

[PimpHolic]

i had this problem too
people told me different stuff, and it turns out that i was doing everything wrong
go into windows (assuming you are using it)
go to start>>run>>winipcfg

select your ethernet card or whatever and write down all the information
go into drake, run the netconfig program or whatever (the command is netconfig in slackware, i know there is a gui in mandrake)
and select DHCP
try that
worked for me, good luck (what have u got to lose ? :) )

[Milan]

Thanx
iam a little cautious about doing stuff as root . i have already had to re install linux once.
thanks again
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