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(do i need to bump this or will it do automatically?) thank you for the help... but it still isnt working. card works fine under windows. there are no specific linux drivers for the card. SiS say that the OS supports it perfectly. so shouldnt be a driver issue. ive tried everything i can think of and things that i knew would no work. i even turned on PnP or whatever it is on the router... maybe ill go get redhat or the free version of lindows that they were giving away. i give up... spent another 45 mins almost pratting about with it.

hehe... doesnt matter. i know nothing about linux... i was a little vague about some of the info. ive tried to put 192.168.2.1 as the default gateway. looking at my XP settings that is the default gateway. which is what i thought it would be. ive tried to put in a static IP and it didnt work. i have set the IP addresses to never expire on the DHCP server, so that way i know what IP belongs to which computer. im assuming that the IP it assigns is based on the computers hostname(?). both XP and linux have the same computer/host name. ive tried a static IP. didnt work. i think, that maybe its something to do with zfghostip or whatever it is. cant check as im not in linux and didnt write it down. oh, also says that eth0 is 'down'. that mean no lan connection or linux cant get the NIC to work? when i installed linux i had two NICs. one for the LAN and one for the internet. was running a proxy server for HTTP, FTP, POP3, etc. but that was a hassle and so i invested in a half decent router. linux picked up on the fasct that id disabled the onboard NIC, but could this be causing some sort of confusion/conflict? looked through the documentation on linux and told me sod all... and deleting profiles in the network set up bit doesnt work. i have a list of various 'testing' profiles that just wont go away! tried again today for about 30 mins. goign through the wizard, using expert mode/no expert mode etc. only thing that i havnt tried is turning off auto detect. anyone able to give me an example of their settings in linux? the zfghost thing etc? once ive got the network/internet working, then i need to get WINE sorted and working, and the bastard thing to see my NTFS partitions and ill be almost converted to the GNU (... incidently there is a very looong and crap joke about those!) thank you... hope that ive not confused the issue more? :/ ... and rambled on more than enough. take care, K [edit] oh and my setup in XP is basically auto assign IP and gateway. the router is setup the same way... <IT_TechnicianMode>shove the cables in the right holes and it works </IT_TechnicianMode>

hello, just thought id give linux a go again (its been a few years). i have no idea what im doing with linux really. but know what im doing with windows... ive read a few other posts here about networking and havnt read anything that has helped :/ hard/software / network setup (.. have i missed anything relevant?) - SMC 900 fast eathernet card 10/100 SMC baracade 8 port switch/router (DHCP server turned on) dual boot with windows XP mandrake 9.2 (has its own partitions) ive been through the setup wizard a few times, and tried various options and combinations and i get nothing. no IP, no internet, no connection or anything similar. it sits there 'configuring' for a min or two and it still doesnt work. ive tried to set up the lan, set up the internet and it seems to have no effect. tried giving it the routers IP addy to try and help linux along in connecting etc. and it just doesnt want to do anything. any help will be apreciated. thank you. take care, K.