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It's working :D

Well to sum up...

I googled for that strange message "SIOCSIFFLAGS: function not implemented" and VIA Rhine II kept popping up (thats what I have), so I read a little, and came across this forum:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/sh...=&postid=955852

near the bottom someone suggested to check the "force no acpi". I did just that, rebooted... And it worked, with DHCP enabled.

Well anyways, thank you so much ianw1974, you have been a great ally on my conquest into the linux world :)

Ok I changed it back to dhcp and did a "dhclient eth0" and the response was:

sit0: unknown hardware at address type 776

SIOCSIFFLAGS: function not implemented

SIOCSIFFLAGS: function not implemented

sit0: unknown hardware at address type 776

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0a:e6:95:09:d0

Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0a:e6:95:09:d0

Sending on Socket/fallback

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3

send_packet: Network is down

the last 2 lines repeat 6 times, and finally it says:

No DHCPOFFERS received.

No working leases in persistant database - sleeping.

ifconfig -a is the same as in the beginning, no address.

I tried to change it back to dhcp, no hassle there, but when I look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 it shows

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=DHCP
IPADDR=192.168.1.10
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=NO
USERCTL=no
DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient
PEERDNS=yes
PEERPYP=no
PEERNTPD=no

I even did it after a reboot...

When I wrote that post before I was still on static IP (with no connection, I could only ping myself).

Right now I am trying out the things you suggested.

Just a minute.....

I have a little update.

I rebooted the machine, then I tried to ping 192.168.1.10 and it answered. Then I did a config -a and now it says under eth0:

inet addr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

Which I think is kind of weird, since I have changed nothing.

Ok, when I did "ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 up" (that is the IP I chose) it says:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented

and "dmesg | grep -i eth0" returns:

eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1c000, 00:0a:e6:95:09:d0, IRQ 16.

eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 01e1 Link 45e1.

Oh I just figured, I think it enters a new entry into boot.log every time I change the network configuration. Perhaps?

Well I'm kind of new to linux, remeber ;) so I don't know if I'm looking at the right things in /var/log/boot.log but I think this is kind of strange, it says:

Shutting down loopback interface: succeeded

Setting network parameters: succeeded

Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded

Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded

this repeats 4 times and then right after Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded

it says:

Sorry, there is already an instance of ifplugd for eth0 running.

Bringing up interface eth0: failed

now this repeats 2 times and then it finally ends with:

Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded

Was this informative?

Alright. I really appreciate your help. Thanks :)

It does remember the settings as I entered them last.

Both "Network hotplugging" and "Start at boot" is checked on, "Track network card id" is not.

Yes... It stil doesn't show an IP.

Under Services the network show "running".

Thats great, thank you so much :)

The name of the Module is "via-rhine" and it is in the lsmod list, although under 'used by' it just says "0".

The network itself is working smooth. On the computer where I have installed Mandriva, I have just loaded up knoppix from a live CD, and it works just great, internet and everything. When I load the computer up on knoppix the dhcp server assigns it IP 192.168.1.10 so no problem on the actual network (cables and such).

The ethernet card is an onboard VT6102 VIA Rhine (which is what was detected and installed during installation).

OK, I did exactly as you said and this is what ifconfig -a reported:

-----------------------------------------------------------------

eth0

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:95:09:D0

BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 erros:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 erros:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Interrupt:16 Base address:0xc000

-----------------------------------------------------------------

and nothing else.

I am puzzled.

Yes I have run an ifconfig -a and there is no IP bound for eth0 (both for DHCP and static IP).

Alright, it seems like dhcp-client and dhcp-common is installed. I did everything you suggested and the situation is still the same.

I entered a static IP (and all that), stil no network.

To see if it was my router that was the problem I used this machine I'm on right now (win xp) to do a network scan, and all I can see is my router, printserver and this xp machine, NOT the static ip I just configured on the Mandriva machine.

Anyways I don't think it's the dhcp server that has the problem, since I can get pretty much anything on the net over that router.

Also, when I do a config -a with a static IP, it doesn't show an IP address for eth0, which kind of puzzles me since I just entered it.

I don't know if this helps but when I run 'ifup eth0' it says "Function not implemented".

I'm pretty knew to linux so I actually don't know if I have dhcp-client or dhcp-common installed.

A little update on my situation though: I downloaded the 3 2005LE images and installed it from there, which work out just fine.

But I still have the same problem, I don't receive an ip address from the dhcp server.

Maybe it is that dhcp-client and dhcp-common thing you mentioned,how can I check it and what should I do about it?

I'm new to both Mandriva and this forum so, hi everybody.

My problem is this:

I installed Mandriva 2005LE from the mini CD...

Everything OK, until I tried to reach a package mirror, wich I couldn't.

I investigated and found the ethernet driver correctly installed, no problem there.

It seems there is no response from the DHCP server.

But I can load up Knoppix (receiving an ip addr and working smooth).

I simply do not get it, help is much appreciated...