[ale] Mandrake can't network

[Michael Hirsch]

Thanks, these are all good suggestions.  Unfortunately I've spent two days getting my system upgraded, and that's long enough.  Someday I hope to try again, but for now I guess I'll just live with RH 8.  In some ways that is better.  Our product is RH based, so the more I use it the better I will understand the product.

Michael


-----Original Message-----
From:	Dow Hurst [mailto:dhurst at kennesaw.edu]
Sent:	Thu 12/12/2002 6:10 PM
To:	ale at ale.org
Cc:	
Subject:	Re: [ale] Mandrake can't network

Since you have said that you have a link light but dhcp isn't working:

you must have the correct module loaded?  Check with lsmod

you might have ipchains or iptables rules blocking.  check with ipchains 
-L -n -v or iptables -L -n -v

you should check arp.  arp -a should list local LAN MACs

you can try setting up static IPs for testing with ping.

Let us know what you get.
Dow


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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