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dumped mandrake and went with fedora2, its working great.

so I should give it the same adress as windows? Is the default gateway my routers ip? sorry I dont know much about networking, ill start learning more when I get my A+

EDIT: I did all you told me and nothing worked. I have the same gateway and IP(the IP in the slot on my router+1) as windows.

added the line in the file but it didint help. If I type ifdown eth0 it tells me device not found or detected or soemthing like that. If I type ifup eth0 it sais failed.

I just noticed that when I start in vervos mode when it sais bringing up interface eth0 it stalls a bit then sais failed

Cant modify the files unless im loged in as root but I cant. Its not listed in the login screen and I cant add it. i can do it in the console but i dont know how to edit files in there.

my motherboard is a soyo plus dragon 2. The card is a davicom 9102.a, well, thats what aida32 tells me. Linux sais something a little different but its something linke 100mbps, and other stuff describing the card. The driver is DAVICOM][<what linux calls my card> (looks like something like that)

the contents of ifcfg-eth0 are

DEVICE=eth0

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

ONBOOT=yes

MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no

WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=""

NEEDHOSTNAME=yes

My ethernet card is integrated in my motherboard but not made by the same company(apparantly), mandrake seems like it has a driver for it. The disc that came with my MOBO has all kinds of drivers but they are all for windows. Their website has linux drivers but only for the 2.2 and 2.4 kernel. I cant connect to the other PC's or router, my connection is listed as disconected and it wont connect.

if config output:

eth0

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:2C:08:68:47

inet6 addr: fe80::250:2cff:fe08:6847/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:2430 (2.3 Kb)

Interrupt:11 Base address:0xb000

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:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:7522 (7.3 Kb) TX bytes:7522 (7.3 Kb)Untitled 1

i could never connect. Didint touch share a connection.

I just loaded mandrake 10.0 but it wont connect to the internet. I tried lots of different network settings but none work. I have 3 computers connected to a router and cable internet connected to it.

how exactly do I do that, this is my first time using linux and im stuck with command lines so im compleatly lost.

under its written

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection request by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

There no error messages, it just boots in a command line interface. i use a 9600SE video card.

when I enter startx it gives me a message"fatal error: no screen found"

I just installed linux but every time I boot I only have a CLI. I tried all 4 different boot options(linux-interpris, linux-smp, linux and linux-nonfb) but they are all the same(exept for linux but all it has is a picture in th backgrond) I installed KDE and gnome so I dont know whats wrong.

I have windows XP and only made 1 partition, I was thinking I shoud make a 2nd for linux when I installed it but I didint and now I regret it. I have mandrake 9.2(got it a couple of days before 10.0 ISO's came out everywhere becaus all the servers were overloaded but I just want to learn linux so I dont care) and I want to install it without reformating. Partition magic is very expensive and im only going to use it once so thats out of the question, I tried partition manager but it isint compatible with NTFS(V2.40). What else can I do?