pbpersson Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 I am having so many problems. I was using 10.0 on an old Pentium II and was so impressed I bought a brand new motherboard, a new video card, and install an Athlon XP 2400 processor. Now I cannot get the OS to recognize the Ethernet card. I tried three cards and two network cables. I unchecked the "hot pluggable" thing. I tried static IPs and also DHCP. I have installed the OS four times now. The last few times were fresh installs on formatted partitions and the last one I included almost no software. Tonight I'm going to install Windows 2000 on the machine to test all the new hardware and I will also check the motherboard revision. Is this a good place to get Mandrake help? I am a member of the Mandrake Club and have tried to get help on the Mandrake Club web site but I never really get any replies. It's funny, I joined the Mandrake Club to get support but have not been able to use it. Perhaps I don't know how to use their site. I did register in this forum topic here so I assume this means I will get email notifications? Anyway, I just built this new machine on Sunday and cannot get Mandrake up and running. It also seems to have problems seeing USB devices. I heard that if I can connet to the Internet I can download fixes for that but if I cannot connect I cannot download fixes. Oh.....when I go with a static IP it says that it loads eth0 without an error but there are no lights blinking on the back of the NIC which seems weird. Any ideas? Comments? Suggestions? I'm a total Linux Newbie but I used to be a Windows network admin and a programmer so I know some IT, just not Linux. Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 hi and welcome aboard. :D well..... your ethernet-card gets recognized, right? if you can get a connection between your router and the network card (i guess you are using a router, right?), try pinging the router from your box. open a terminal and type "su" then enter the root password. now type "ping 10.0.0.2" or "ping 192.168.0.1" or whatever your router has as default-ip. do you get any responses from the beast? if not, type: "ifup eth0" (in case your eth0 was not activated) did this work? if not, please post the output of the following command (from terminal again) "ifconfig" and post the result of "cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0" good luck :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbpersson Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Thank you for your kind offer of help. As it turns out I found other people who had this same motherboard (Soyo SY-KT600 Dragon Plus v2.0) and I discovered that you need to go into the LILO configuration and click in force no ACPI or something like that. Then I rebooted and the network cards and sound system all sprang to life. So, there is hope for Mandrake 10.1 PP now - I figured once I could connect to the Internet and download fixes I would be set. Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 good to hear that it is only acpi related. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Welcome and keep coming back.... You might find the responce rapid after the official club..... Either way you have lots of enthusiastic people here who will be glad to help... and if you post problems and even if they are solved elsewhere to try and add the solution like you did above for everyone else. Above all we try and be a community :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbpersson Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Welcome and keep coming back....You might find the responce rapid after the official club..... Either way you have lots of enthusiastic people here who will be glad to help... and if you post problems and even if they are solved elsewhere to try and add the solution like you did above for everyone else. Above all we try and be a community :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Tonight I am going to continue upgrading, tweaking, installing the software I want in 10.1 PP, etc. I absolutely must have my color weather radar working in Mozilla with Java! :D So....my ultimate goal here is to become a guru on Mandrake and then help other people make the switch. I can help the Linux cause by coaxing people to escape the world of Windows. I am not getting email notifications in my inbox when new topics are posted here, but I see there is a "view new posts" so I will to try that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 I am not getting email notifications in my inbox when new topics are posted here, but I see there is a "view new posts" so I will to try that. Have you used the 'Track this Topic' feature on your first post in the thread? :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Have you used the 'Track this Topic' feature on your first post in the thread? :unsure: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> i have never used that... too lazy for that. i simply look through all messages that appear during one/two days. stupid, eh? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 I am not getting email notifications in my inbox when new topics are posted here, but I see there is a "view new posts" so I will to try that. Have you used the 'Track this Topic' feature on your first post in the thread? :unsure: Sorry, you were referring to topics not posts in this thread - you can subscribe to individual forums, but not the whole board. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest viju Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 I am using Mandrake 8 and win98.Iam using lan for inernet.I can connect to internet in windows but not in Mandrake8 or 10.My ethernet card is detected but I cannot connect.I can also connect internet in Redhat9.I am givig below the output of command suggested in topmost post on this page. Pleasae help. [root@gns vijay]# ping 10.0.02 PING 10.0.02 (10.0.0.2) from 172.16.92.21 : 56(84) bytes of data. ping 192.168.0.1 From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable --- 10.0.02 ping statistics --- 93 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +12 errors, 100% packet loss [root@gns vijay]# [root@gns vijay]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:6E:75:6A:C1 inet addr:172.16.92.21 Bcast:172.16.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:25026 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1510642 (1.4 Mb) TX bytes:17332 (16.9 Kb) Interrupt:12 Base address:0xcc00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3976 (3.8 Kb) TX bytes:3976 (3.8 Kb) [root@gns vijay]# Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 There is an extremely very simple way to track your postings. When you log in you will see at the top left of the page:- Logged in as: ???????? (Log out) When you click on your login name it will open another page and in the centre you will see a line titled Find member's posts Click on that line and it will give you a full list of all the posts you have made. Select the post you are most interested in and click on the Post Preview #??????? number at the bottom of the post. This will take you directly to the complete thread. Sounds complicated but is simple as ABC. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 I am using Mandrake 8 and win98.Iam using lan for inernet.I can connect to internet in windows but not in Mandrake8 or 10.My ethernet card is detected but I cannot connect.I can also connect internet in Redhat9.I am givig below the output of command suggested in topmost post on this page. Pleasae help. [root@gns vijay]# ping 10.0.02 PING 10.0.02 (10.0.0.2) from 172.16.92.21 : 56(84) bytes of data. ping 192.168.0.1 From 172.16.92.21: Destination Host Unreachable --- 10.0.02 ping statistics --- 93 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +12 errors, 100% packet loss [root@gns vijay]# [root@gns vijay]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:6E:75:6A:C1 inet addr:172.16.92.21 Bcast:172.16.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:25026 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1510642 (1.4 Mb) TX bytes:17332 (16.9 Kb) Interrupt:12 Base address:0xcc00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3976 (3.8 Kb) TX bytes:3976 (3.8 Kb) [root@gns vijay]# <{POST_SNAPBACK}> hi and welcome :) could you please post the contents of your /etc/sysconfig/networkscripts/ifcfg-eth0 and your /etc/resolv.conf file? btw... you really use mandrake 8.0? wow... dinosaur jr. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest viju Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 hi and welcome :)could you please post the contents of your /etc/sysconfig/networkscripts/ifcfg-eth0 and your /etc/resolv.conf file? btw... you really use mandrake 8.0? wow... dinosaur jr. :P Contents of /etc/sysconfig/networkscripts/ifcfg-eth0 is DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=172.16.92.21 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.0 BROADCAST=172.16.255.255 ONBOOT=yes and contents of /etc/resolv.conf is # search localdomain search localdomain # nameserver 172.16.0.2 nameserver 172.16.1.1 # ppp temp entry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest viju Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 Arctic, I have posted contents of the files you asked.I am waiting for your advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 (edited) oops... forgot about that post ... hehehe.. :) umm.. let see... in case you are connecting to the web with a router (they normally use dhcp for connecting), your ifcfg-eth0 should look like this DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp IPADDR=172.16.92.21 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.0 BROADCAST=172.16.255.255 ONBOOT=yes if this does not fix things, try to change your dns-servers (you can find dns-servers from your isp using google) in the resolv.conf file. try e.g. nameserver 217.237.149.161 then save the file and test it. if it works. if is works, lock the file from a terminal as root with the following command chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf unlocking with chattr -i /etc/resolv.conf good luck Edited February 5, 2005 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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