DSL & Mandrake 7.2 and more....

[slayter]

First off, I'm brand spankin' new to Linux so please bear with me and reply as if you were trying to teach a child. :)

I have successfully (kinda, sorta, I think) installed Mandrake 7.2. The only big red X and depressed Tux I get is from my SB PCI 512 sound card. I expected that, though. I do not get any type of GUI after booting into Linux. Just a command prompt(the shell?) to login. I believe this may be due to the fact that I need to set up my Voodoo 3. That's my current theory. Please correct me if it is wrong. I have read the NHF and will attempt it when I get home.

My primary concern is getting my DSL running properly. I'm using Telocity and it is external connecting to a nic. Now, I know my nic is actually working since I was able to do a loop back test. The funny thing is I am also able to successfully ping my static IP address that Telocity has assigned me, although I did not manually enter it. I know it is suppose to happen that way, but I can not ping anything else.
(sidenote-nobody every said anything about the -c switch when using ping. learned that the hard way)

Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Molecule Man]

Try startx

Hopefully that is enough to get you up to X. MDK7.2 should set up a Voodoo3 automatically. For seting up DSl, I would use linuxconf as from what you said, you have a static IP. Input that static Ip for eth0.

[slayter]

Thanks. I will try the startx command.

I did go into linuxconf to setup my dns servers, but was still unable to ping the outside world. :(