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Yep arctic , and the others who took notice, if I could it would be : "have a beer on me" Cheers

Thanx for your time you're all fine people ! I've found the solution and I can login without any more probs and now I will configure my connection seriously !! I just had (silly me !) to enter the interactive login by pressing " shift I" and simply saying "No" when it came to networking and Internet, and then everything "magically" reappeared ! No need to do a pretend install. contented *sigh* : phewwww !!! Thanx anyway ! Long live this site !

To answer you arctic, I connect by dhcp, so I probably made the mistake to choose pppoE . How can I get access to my original settings ? I don't know what to do in failsafe mode cause it brings me to a bash prompt : I type start x as someone (Chris) I think suggested but it didn't work So what could I do ? THX again

First of all, thx guys to try and help me To answer Chris, yes it lets me boot into failsafe. I remember ticking the "connect at boot up box" , my eth0 card was detected allright. It's just when I filled in the info provided by my ISP that at the new boot up all went wrong. To answer arctic, yes it's the first time with this modem 'coz it's the one sent by my ISP. It's a kinda multi-function box (could even make coffee if I asked) : enables people to use USB and serial (ethernet) connections, plug your phonr in and later receive TV channels for bored netsurfers (true, this one). F**cking machine works like hell with w'doz.. So of course I don't have any info about this rocket modem... But the boot up process is OK till it comes to : ppp interface activation" That's where it hangs and stays forever. The prompt blinks and don't move. Can't understand what's the trouble here

Sorry Chris but this doesn't work I did exactly what you suggested but I am still stuck at this line "Interface ppp0 activation" and the re's no prompt, or it's just blinking continuously, if you prefer as if it was waiting for something to be added but if you hit a key, nothing happens.. Now I'm worried to have to shut the box down by pressing the reset key.. :unsure: Thanx anyway perhaps you 'd be able to figure ou sthg else... Never seen a strange thing like that

Hi all, Well everything has been running smoothly since the 10.1 OE install, except the fact I couldn't connect to the Net. My box is ASUS AB-P 2800 It's running on dual boot with Windows XP which I am currently using to send this. It's linked to the net with the modem provided by my ISP, which has a serial port and provides ADSL. I changed settings to try to connect the Linux OS and that's what went wrong, I guess At startup, the scrolling just stops at PPP interface activation (translated from the French) and the prompt just keeps blinking for ever and ever. Should I use failsafe mode and try to modify these settings in MMC ? I would be much obliged if someone could help me with that. It's probably nothing to get past this but honestly I don't want to mess up what's been a fine install a few days ago Thnx for any advice

Welcome to the south of France, my friend, if ever you feel like coming and settling there, though I like Scotland it's much warmer down here ! Cheers !

It sure is ! Mandrake's back on the saddle, or so it seems !

Yep, alsaconf did the trick for me, too !!

Hi, I personally use a netgear DG 834, which is a router on which can be connected up to 4 boxes. It's very good indeed, does all it is meant to do, and has a Great look, in case you're something of an "art" lover.. Cheers !! USB modems, imho, are real s**t !

<in Running Linux, 4th Edition : "127.0.0.1 is the address of the system itself, by default". It means your system is connected to itself, "isolated from the world", hence you can't get to the web if it is your addresse by default..

Hi Richard, Thanks a lot for your suggestion. I followed it but nothing changed. Did you just add this line or did you modify the existing one beginning with "net.ipv4.tcp_ ..." Does the line "net.ip_dynaddr=..." shows 0 (disabled) or 1 ? In my case it shows "0" By the way what make is your modem-router ? THanks for having taken time to answer !

Yes I can ping other computers such as yahoo. I use Mozilla, I get the same thing with Konqueror. In another forum, a person told me I should get the nameserver of my ISP by typing host ns1 and 2, but I got nothing clear out of it. AOL is my ISP and it returned : name server failed and an address : 127.0.0.1 According to this person, I then Had to change my current nameserver IP (127.0.0.1) by the new one found thanks to host ns something. It failed of course I tried with my modem router address, to no avail.. Any new idea ? Thanks a lot for trying to help me, though ! :D [edited by spinynorman]

Hello fine people! I'm nearly a newbie, but I succeeded in setting up nearly everything I needed. One problem remains, though : I've got Mandrake 10.0 Official download on my Asus pc, an Olitec SX500 adsl modem-router, which works fine on my Windows machine (a DEll 2400) I can get connected using "dhclient eth0", but I can only get Google, that means each time I click on an hyperlink, it goes on searching forever, nothing appears.. Funny thing is I can get connected to some FTP servers and xchat alse works.. I'm really confused.. By the way my Internet provider is AOL. Anybody who could give me a tip ?