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Hi, ian ! it works - I hardly can believe it, but indeed... - I've install linux-2.6.18; - then go KDE -> Control Center -> Network & Internet -> Set up a new network interface -> LAN connection - You can see what is output on http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/installmdv2006.html (in the chapter "Summary -- Network"...) - then "Net device" (my case - eth1: nVidia Corporation|MCP51...) -> Manual Configuration -> enter IPadreess & Netmask -> enter DNS server 1, Gateway (same as DNS) and !! - on 2.6.18 there is an option "Gateway device" (wich wasn't on previous versions) !! - so choose here "eth1..." and that's it ! - reboot it works.... at last ...

It still doesn't work. I made changes in /etc/modprobe.config and reboot system, the now if I look /etc/modprobe.config, there: alias eth0 forcedeth alias eth1 eth1394 But when I'm looking Control Center - no changes there - in New Connection -> LAN Connection eth0: IEEE 1394 IPv4 Driver (....) eth1: nVidia Corporation|MCP51 .... How it is possible ?.... Well, maybe there is another way to decide problem - nVidia supplies drivers for Linux, the only problem, that I've met before is that installing-program looks for kernel-sources in /usr/src... Maybe I should find a kernel with exactly matching kernel-sources, compile them & try to install those files from nVidia ?

2 ian Hi again ! So, one by one: in etc/.../ifcfg_eth1: DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=none IPADDR="No IP" NETMASK="No Mask" BROADCAST=255 MII_NO_SUPPORTED=yes PEERDNS=yes NETMASK="No Mask" IPADDR="No IP" I've put "ONBOOT=no" to ifcfg-eth0 - it seems that nothing changed after rebooting - when I look Control Center, I'm again suggested, that ethernet-connection will be through eth0; Yes, I hav DHCP-server number, IP-address (as far I'd read them from Windows) For eth1 is "forcedeth"-module, but I didn't understand - what to do with this ? In etc/modprobe.conf I can see: alias eth1 forcedeth alias eth0 eth1394 Say, how to change quickly system-files, like "ifcfg-eth0" - through "vi-redactor" ?

No, ian, I didn't any yet - I read Your message after posting my one; I'll try to do what You say after a while and inform You.

ian, when I've reload system the a result from "ifconfig -a" was as in my last post, but now I'got another one : eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-11-D8-00-00-E9-5D-57-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1008 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors: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) eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:7B:87:10 inet6 addr: fe80::218:f3ff:fe7b:8710/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:73 (73.0 b) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b) Interrupt:16 Base address:0xc000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:148368 (144.8 KiB) TX bytes:148368 (144.8 KiB) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) so, one device is added, but it gives little help

Aha - here it is: # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-11-D8-00-00-E9-5D-57-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1008 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors: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) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:160852 (157.0 KiB) TX bytes:160852 (157.0 KiB) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) When I'm runing Mandriva Linux Control Center -> Network & Internet -> Set up a new network interface(LAN, ISON, ADSL...) -> LAN connection it shows Net Devices: eth0: IEEE 1394 IPv4 Driver (IPv4-over-1394 as per RFC 2734) eth1: nVidia Corporation|MCP51 Ethernet Controller & by default Mandriva trying establish connection throug eth0... & trying to change configuration of IEEE 1394 was realy bad idea... - it causes kernel panic...

Yes, I've forgot about this - wait for a while, I'm experimenting with poor mashine, so need some time to reboot it & get answer from non-changed version (2.6.16.2) 10 minutes or so huhu... need to reinstall system - experiment wasn't succesfull...

bash: ifconfig: command not found

Ok, but one problem still left (not so big I suppose...) Now I have 2 Network Interfaces - eth0 ( IEEE 1394 ... ) - it was set before kernel-updating, ... adn it is the only one which is available under kernel 2.6.12-12mdk and eth1 ( NVIDIA MCP51 Ethernet Controller) (which appear under new version (2.6.15.6) - same one (I think this is right one, because I have nVidia- network cart) It seems, that Mandriva now can see any of devices on my PC, (to judge by # lspci output)... but there is no connection to ethernet still. May be I have to put MCP51 on "eth0" ? how it could be done ? or maybe this option could be set in kernel configuration (say make changes under # make menuconfig) ? Or best solution is to upgrade kernel to higher version ? It would be nice, if You can advice something.

It's a bit late... but nevertheless... Thank You ian, I've spent almost a week trying to make deal with my Mandriva (it didn't see my Ethernet card); followint Your instructions I've managed to upgrade my kernel ... well, it's first step, but I'm lucky now. Thanks again. :P