RiccardoPini

Hi im back from other tests: same (read it as no) result. It's left only to disable the IPV6 as last chance and delete the sit0 entry. First ive disabled the Apic functions using MCC rebooted and re-enabled the onboard realtek ethernet: in this case Mandriva brought up the realtek and the 3com and i could access the router perfectly. Then ive switched off the pc completely (really no power to it) and then on: Mandriva told during the boot it could bring up both the ethxx but i couldnt access the router. Honestly during this i got the led on the router indicating the realtek port green and stable but no light for the 3com. Inside Bios i didnt find any entry regarding the PnP OSs honestly. I did all this having set up the router for no dhcp and gave static IPs to the cards. On the comp ive only the Mandriva now: the examples about i wrote related to Suse9.3 were real but referred to a pure Suse9.3 installation which doesnt exist anymore. WinXP is something i dont even want to name.

MCC seems to work properly following and leaving the setting i insert in the fields. Only when i move from DHCP to Static i saw the MCC network panel showing my dns ip was the gateway ip but once i changed it, MCC kept the record and everything went fine...until the next reboot. Will try the tests i told and report back here asap. Thanks for now!

Thanks, will do. Hopefully in some hours, otherwise i have to post the results of the tests tomorrow. I was reading the forum too and will also try to disable from the Bios the plug&play OS function too.

Hi to all! Sorry if this mesage will be a bit long, ill try to keep it as short as possible. The problem regards my home pc and the networking with the eth cards (same problem with 2 eth cards) and the router and these OSes: Mandriva 2006, Suse 9.3 and 10 but no with WinXp (which i dont like). Synoptic: Pc based on a Aopen motherboard with Realtek 8139 eth and a 3com gigabit ethernet controller (sk98lin module), router US Robotics router/modem w 4ports. Connection to Internet throught PPPoAtm. Behaviour (this has been checked doing lot of tests): the only way for have everything working is to set with static ip the ethx adapters and make a hard reset with the button to the router (i mean with the reset button not the power button), bringing it back to its factory default. Under these circumstancies everything works fine with all the OSes. Otherwise if i switch off the pc (leaving the motherboard under current or completely deattach it from the power it doesnt matter), or if i switch off the router, at the next reboot i get this: the network can be brought up by the OSes, but actually the ethxx dont come up (leds are red), and there is no way to bring them up unless i do some functions like hwup and down and ifplugd and so on (this last one only under Suse9.3 coz with Suse 10 isnt working). Ive never found a way for create an exact script neither... With Mandriva instead i can setup everything in a proper way with the MCC using the dhcp or the static way but as soon as i reboot i get that strange behaviour. I would like to say i followed all the howtos i could find online about network setup but nothing works...that's the behaviour i get. Also if i set up everything with dhcp then i swicth off and then on, and nothing works, if i change to static IP i can bring up the ethxx but if i set all with static IPs and then i reboot and i try dhcp for have them brought up nothing works. Please help!