[ale] Mandrake can't network

[Michael E. Barker]

Yes I have had the same problem and started to go the RH 8 route as 
well.  I would really rather finger out how to get Mandrake fixed though.

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:

>A very strange thing happened to me yesterday.  I decided the time was ripe 
>to upgrade my office desktop, and since I am a big Mandrake fan I decided 
>to install Mandrake 9.0.  The installation went as expected with no 
>problems until it tried to connect to the network.  It failed.
>
>Since the computer had networked only an hour earlier I knew it wasn't the 
>built in ehternet (rt8139 chipset).  I tried a PCI intell etherpro100 
>card, too, and that failed the same way.
>
>Finally, I gave up and installed RedHat 8 which means I spend all morning 
>getting rid of bluecurve.  I'd really rather have mandrake, but why can't 
>it network?  It works fine at hoem, and I find it hard to beleive that 
>they would ship a CD (downloaded) with completely broken networking.
>
>Anyone else ever see this?
>
>Michael
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