[Gllug] Mandrake 9.0

[John Winters]

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 15:51, Eugene Grimsdell wrote:
> Ok now I am going to bang my head a couple of times against the wall, chuck my P4 in a dusban and set my car alight !!!!!!!!!!
> 
> I have just done a fresh install of Mandrake 9 and it brings up eth0 with no errors and standard security. The problem is that I tried 2 diffrent network cards and I still cant ping any system around me (nor can I browse the net) I took a knoppix cd, poped it into the cdrom and booted on the same system... and I am Writing this email via knoppix so that means there is no problem with my network card.
> 
> Can anybody tell me where to start looking ?
> 
> Using a 3com 905B and a Realtek 8139 and on both it loads the right modules but still no network.
> 
> I can ping the local Ip address but noware beyond. 
> 
> PS I have installed 3 times with difrent network setings from static to dhcp and still no luck. ifconfig reports no problems when ading eth0 manually.
> 
> routing table is correct...........off to go bang head.
> 
> Please help and thanx

Have you remembered to use "ping -n" to eliminate possible DNS problems?

After you've tried and failed to ping something what is the output from
"arp -a" and "ifconfig"?

HTH
John

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