[ale] Mandrake can't network

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 12 December 2002 04:58 pm, Jonathan Glass \(IBB\) wrote:
> 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.

I suppose that makes more sense than anything else I can imagine.  I said 
"no firewall" during the install, but what if it does something really 
stupid like deciding I mean "no network".  The install certainly thought 
it should be able to network as it would try to get updates and whatnot 
during the install.

but it is something to think about.

Michael

> 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
> 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?

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