Guest naturesteve Posted April 29, 2003 Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 Sorry but I couldn't find a solution, only mention of this and dhcpcd. I just installed 9.1 on a machine with a lan connection. Internet is through a gateway. IP's are all static. My card is detected (tried 2 different cards) and ifconfig and route show a connection to the card but there is no connection to the lan, can't ping the machine beside me. I have re-installed and tried standard security. This is my first experience with ML, used other linux for 5 yrs. so not a real newbie. Any proceedure, instructions or pointers appreciated, this looks a great distro, if only it worked. steve :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted April 29, 2003 Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 Have you tried using the advanced option when running hte connection wizard? It allows you to specify the addresses of the gateway, DNS server, etc... Could solve some of your problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jay mes Posted April 29, 2003 Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 check your hostname in /etc/hosts . i had the same problem with the mandrake cooker releases of bamboo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest naturesteve Posted April 29, 2003 Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 Thanks but tried both of these. Also linuxconf. It is as if I have ipchains running and all packets are dumped. No response to incomming pings also. The hub lights show the card is active and the cable works fine plugged into the pc next to this machine. I notice my route table looks like 10.2.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 10.2.1.20 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fubar::chi Posted April 29, 2003 Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 Sorry but I couldn't find a solution, only mention of this and dhcpcd.I just installed 9.1 on a machine with a lan connection. Internet is through a gateway. IP's are all static. My card is detected (tried 2 different cards) and ifconfig and route show a connection to the card but there is no connection to the lan, can't ping the machine beside me. I have re-installed and tried standard security. This is my first experience with ML, used other linux for 5 yrs. so not a real newbie. Any proceedure, instructions or pointers appreciated, this looks a great distro, if only it worked. steve :( Had this problem too. I guess mandrake automatically assumes everyone is one dhcp and uses zeroconf to set things up by default on the install. If you install again (don't have to or need to btw) when you get to the end with the configuration sections you can select network and specify things like ip, gateway and the like. You can do this without re-installing by starting up the drakconf program and re-configuring from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest naturesteve Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 Done all that. Ready to give up, another 1/2 day wasted and 2 installs of ML9.1. Who ever heard of networking not working in linux, who'd pay for this?. TL went straight on and worked up front. ML looked good but can't play forever. I'll pay for Suse and get something that works. steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gnatman Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 I had basicaly the exact same problem. Although everything was configured correctly I couldnt get mandrake to connect to the internet on my machine, It worked fine on other machines in my home network, even using the same NIC, I can get a connection on every other machine in my house, but the one in my room will not work, eventually I just gave up and went to Red Hat. It would be very nice if I could get it to work though...I don't like Red Hat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest naturesteve Posted May 1, 2003 Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 I don't like redhat either. Finally got fed up and loaded suse8.2 today. What a quantum leap from ML9.1. Shame, I was ready to buy 9.1 steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted May 1, 2003 Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 Don't worry about it steve.. some distro just doesn't play well with certain hardware configuration. My experience in SuSE 8.2 is exactly the other way around with yours. I cannot get it to work just like I wanted to (nvnet and NVIDIA driver problem mostly) so it's back to mandrake for me. Since SuSE 8.2 works for you, congrats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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