Setting up a Network Connection on Mandrake

[zax0r]

I just recently installed Mandrake on my system using lnx4win. They said it slows down, but its still faster than windows. Anyway, my problem is this.

I dont know how to get my current internet connection(@home cable) to work on the thing if my life depended on it. Also, when it does that "deal" in boot up involving eth0 it always says "[FAILED]" (how do i get the driver for my card?)

Any help is appreciated.

[mindwarp]

Type pump -i eth0

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Mindwarp

------------------
"I'm born. I'm alive. I breathe. In a moment or two I realize, that the sphere, upon which I reside, is asleep on its feet. should I go back to sleep? We orbit the sun. I grow up. my open eyes see...A zombified, somnambulist society. Leaving us as vitamins for the hibernating human animal. Do you see what I mean?"

[zax0r]

That...didnt work. Unrecognized command from bash i guess.

how do i set eth0 as my default network connection and not the l-thing or whatever it says that always has 127.0.0.0 as its IP?

[mindwarp]

Go to your mandrake CD, go to mandrake/rpms (or something like that). Type ls | grep pump
then rpm -ivh pump-whateveritsaid.rpm

Mindwarp

------------------
"I'm born. I'm alive. I breathe. In a moment or two I realize, that the sphere, upon which I reside, is asleep on its feet. should I go back to sleep? We orbit the sun. I grow up. my open eyes see...A zombified, somnambulist society. Leaving us as vitamins for the hibernating human animal. Do you see what I mean?"

[mis]

Is you @home using a static IP or dhcp? If it is static like mine is, edit these files

/etc/hosts
/etc/HOSTNAME
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/sysconfig/network

all the info you need should have been provided to you from them.

After editing them I had to do these commands

route add defaule gw ###.###.###.###(being your gateway address)

ifconfig eth0 ###.###.###.###( being you ip) netmask 255.255.255.0

If you need more specifics email me and I can give exact info in my files.

missy31@home.com

mis

[zax0r]

hmm, i'm getting close(had to figure out stuff on my own)

i am able to ping my own IP.

however when i

ifup eth0

or

ifconfig eth0 up

i usually get something like this:

device is inuse
unable to reach network
network down

now in netconf, i'm a little unsure about those first two fields

the one whree it asks:

host + domain

and the other one(the first one at the top of the adapter1 tab)

can anyone helpe me on this?

thanks alot. sorry about the repeated carriage returns