[ale] Mandrake can't network

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 12 December 2002 04:24 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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?

Works great with RH 8.0 and 7.3.  IT admin couldn't see any traffic at all 
with Mandrake.  Very weird.

Michael
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