[ale] Mandrake can't network

[Jonathan Glass (IBB)]

I know it's silly, but have you checked your firewall rules?  Does
Mandrake ship with them?  This has kicked me in the butt w/RH more than
once...just a thought.

Jonathan Glass
RHCE, A+, Network+, Linux+, MCP
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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 4:24 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Mandrake can't network


Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Thursday 12 December 2002 03:02 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>I've got three machines here with mdk 9.0 and all work fine, 
>>especially networking, since two of them are headless, keyboard/mouse 
>>challenged.
>>
>>Does it see your nic?  What's showing up at boot?
> 
> 
> Yup, sees both nics that I tried.  Link light comes on, too.  It 
> behaves
> differently depending on whether the cable is attached or not, so some

> level of negotiating is happening.  There are no errors I could see
other 
> than the lake of dhcp success.  The kernel seems quite happy with the
nic, 
> except for never receiving a darn thing on it.

Stick ethereal or tcpdump on both ends and see if anything's getting 
through, or trying.

Bad cable?  Or did you say that you got it to work with another distro?


-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement. Think
about it...

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