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Thanx a lot...

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How do I set and unset Grub Password? I am using Mandrake 10.1

Thanks..

I read the post on the link you gave. My resol.conf was properly set already.

Still I am not able to connect to the network. I cannot telnet or ssh to local servers. It gives no route to host message. All this works fine when i reboot the same machine in WIndows XP.

I ran ethtool eth0. Its last line read "Link detected: NO"

Thanks for replying.

I tried changing from dynamic to static. Gave IP address, gateway, DNS properly. Running ifconfig verifies that too. But still no connectivity from network.

Ping is blocked in our network so that wont work.

Earlier I was receiving IPv4 address, then I messed up with some settings. (I can't figure out what)

ifup eth0 gives
/sbin/ifup: line 466: 3788 Hangup
/etc/init.d/tmdns reload >/dev/null 2>&1


ifconfig eth0 gives
eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1
RX packets:0 erros:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions: 0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0  ( 0.0 B) TX bytes:0 ( 0.0 B)
Interrupt:5 Base address: 0xf00

lo Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 16436 Metric:1
RX packets:74 erros:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions: 0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5100  ( 4.9 Kb) TX bytes:5100 ( 4.9 Kb)

Its just a test machine and reinstall wont be a issue. But I would be very happy if I am able to solve the problem. Thats what I do with my Windows always, solve the problem and no reinstalling.

Thanks anyways.

Now the eth0 doesn't has any address.

I again ran mcc to set it to use DHCP.. restarted network services but now

Bringing up interface eth0: FAILED

I have installed Mandrake 10.1.

The problem I am having is that my machine automatically takes an IPv6 Address (Link Local) instead of receiving a IPv4 address from the DHCP server.

My machine is in dual boot with Windows XP, which automatically takes the IPv4 address from DHCP.

SO how do I set Mandrake to do the same. I tried using "mcc" and set it to take address automatically from BOOTP/DHCP but I dont knnow why it takes a IPv6 address which is not supported by my network.

Thanks a lot for suggestions.

I tried setting the configuration back using "mcc" but that too didn't helped. I cannot log in graphically.

It just keeps reverting back to user selection window.

Start 'linux failsafe' at the bootsplash. Type: init 3. Login as user and type: startx startkde (that will start kde). It will probably fail but you will get to see an error. Post it here The error gets logged in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. You can read that log in a console with: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | more.

AT the login I got the folowing error message

-bash: /etc/sysconfig/i18n: Permission denied

then when i ran startx startkde, it gave the following error

Failed to load module "/usr/X11RC/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" (once-only module, 135962511)

/etc/X11/Xsession: line 11: /etc/sysconfig/i18n: Permission denied.

i read that error log file, it is too big to type in here. But I cud see there were a lot of entries regading video mode. I was changing my Video resolution to 1024X768 from 800X600 when all this mess happened. I guess this might be a problem. How shud I resolve it.

Thanks for your kind support.

I am a Linux Newbie. I installed Mandrake 10.1 on my system PIII 1GHz with 128 MB RAM.

I was trying things with Control Center but my X seem to crashed. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+backspace and it gave me login screen. But now even if entering right username and password it returns back to login screen.

Then I pressed Ctr+alt+F1 for console. and was able to login there. Then "su" command and then "xinit" .it said to remove/tmp/.X ....something file. I removed it .. rebooted the system using"reboot" command .. but I am still not able to login to KDE/GNOME. I can only work under console (to which i am not pretty familiar).

Now to enter X I first go to console, login as root, kill the "xdmkdm" process and then run startx.

Please help me out and plz provide me the link to some command line tools list which work in mandrake 10.1

Thanx a lot.

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