Netgear Ethernet Card

[ludwigg]

Gentlemen!

I just installed my wonderful Mandrake Linux 8.2, but somehow 'that's because I am a newbie' I can't get my internet running...

I dont know if the card's drivers are installed or if setting it up wrong ... but I guess it is virtually impossible to make a mistake with the Wizard.

Any input from anyone?
I am using ADSL from Earthlink...

[Radar]

You will probably need PPPoE. There are some clients for that:
roaring penguin (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/linux-for-home.php3)
Mandrake probably has a client that you can use too.

What netgear is it?

[ludwigg]

Netgear FA312

[cowanrl]

The easiest way to tell if your ethernet card is working is to enter:

/sbin/ifconfig -a

at a command line. It should return some information on eth0(which is your ethernet card) and lo. If you see nothing for eth0, then your card isn't working.
If you do see info for eth0, your card should be at least recognized by Linux. Copy and past the info on eth0 here and we can help from there.

[ludwigg]

This is like a joke, I click to download Roaring Penguin and my Realplayer starts immediately?!?!?!

[ludwigg]

inet addr:10.0.0.10 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX Packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:97 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:5080 (4.9Kb) TX bytes:4300 (4.1Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base Address:0x2000

I guess this means that the card is recognized...

[ludwigg]

Originally posted by ludwigg
inet addr:10.0.0.10 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX Packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:97 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:5080 (4.9Kb) TX bytes:4300 (4.1Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base Address:0x2000

I guess this means that the card is recognized...

There's also more after something that starts

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

ETC ETC

[Radar]

The one you're concerned with is eth0. It looks as if it is running. You just need to get the adsl client running now.

[gr0m3t]

You might have some driver issues. I had some trouble w/ the FA312 drivers that came w/ the card. Although, to be fair, I was trying to get it working on RH 7.0, not Mandrake.

You might want to check out the drivers at Scyld Computing...

http://www.scyld.com/network/

Good luck.

[ludwigg]

Ok...I typed in /sbin/ifconfig eth0

And everything looks fine.

Now...I have downloaded Roaring Penguin rp-pppoe-3.5-1.src.rpm

and rpm --rebuild rp-pppoe-3.5-1.src.rpm

and I get an error message

error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES
error: rp-pppoe-3.5-1.src.rpm cannot be installed

and right here I am stuck...

[Dizzybacon]

Try having a look here (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html) there is a HOWTO on DSL and one on cable modems.

One thing I would definately try is to turn off the router and leave it for at least a few hours.

Dizzy

[ludwigg]

Anyone else has some input??

[Radar]

*Bump*

[ludwigg]

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

error:cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES
error:rp-pppoe-3.5-1.src.rpm cannot be installed

It seems like my permission to this directory is denied...how can I modify it?

[Radar]

try ls /usr/src/rpm/

[i_like_peanut_butter]

Are you trying to run RPM as a normal user or superuser? You'll need to be superuser.