ioffer Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 I've always noticed it, but never done anything about it because my network works fine, but when booting into mandrake 10.1, it says eth0 failed. -ifconfig says i have an ip address and all is grand. -web connection seems to work fine (less the fact that KWeather has never worked -- any ideas on that?) -i can ifdown and ifup successfully. my network card is an on the mainboard of an SIS: currently using sis drivers etc. I'm connected to an external router that is configured correctly and works great with all computers connected to it. I haven't found anyone with an issue similar. Is this common? Might this explain why Kweather always gives me the error "The requested station does not exist."??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taliesinangelus Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 When you chose a connection - what type did you choose? I had this problem too when I chose "cable modem" connection but when I switched to just a LAN connection type it doesn't fail any more. You might want to try that and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Go to the Mandrake Control Center, internet, manage connction, tab options and disable 'hot network plugging'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioffer Posted March 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 SOLVED I'm sure i never selected 'cable modem' so didn't try that, but disabling 'hot network plugging' did the trick... thanks to both of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taliesinangelus Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 devries deserves the credit. I probably disabled the hotplug thing while changing the other. *shrugs* :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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