Hello. I have been able to connect to the internet on my machine with RedHat and Windows XP, but not with Mandrake 9.x or 10.

I have a router and asked about that on another forum... every solution I tried didn't help. My ethernet card is a VIA VT6102 Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter. If that is most definitely my problem, what can I do to get myself connected?

yo, what motherboard have u got ??... cos' i'm having the same problem too...
try "query modem" and tell me what it says

query modem wont help with an ethernet card 'yo!''

Also, what problems are you experiencing especially?
when you open a browser no pages?
can you 'ping' any hosts on the outside/inside network?

I can't ping any hosts at all besides myself.

The browsers don't work.

have you tried mandrakes netconfig??? I have succesfully used mandrake witha via-rhine.. (i think it was a little buggy if i remember right) but it detected it with netconfig. I have also found that sometimes using a static ip gets the card to working.. then switching back ti dhcp when it does work.

I cannot access the net too with my Fedora Linux distro when using DHCP with a Via-Rhine VT6102. I cannot get an IP.
Any solutions?

Add a noapic to boot line in lilo.conf

I tried to install the noapic in my grub.conf but it did not work.
Could you please specify more? Give me the details ...

I am going to have to give up with Linux!!!!

Thank you!!!!

I don't know where you put the noapic, but it goes on the kernel command line.

I have a Chaintech Apogee, and without this kernel parameter the onboard Via-Rhine does not work.

See example grub.conf for placement of the noapic kernel paramater.

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-21)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-21 ro noapic root=/dev/hda6
initrd /initrd-2.4.9-21.img

I added the noapic exactly as u said and it is not working.
When linux starts and it says bringing up interface eth0, it gives me a failed instead of an OK. I am desesperate!!!!

I have to give up with linux, (

I don't know the details for Mandrake, but I would like to ask a few relevant questions to see if we can come a little closer.

1. Is your NIC detectect during boot? Check lsmod to see if the module is loaded. Also check the logs after boot for errors, less /var/log/messages

2. When pinging "your self", are you pinging 127.0.0.1 or the IP of your NIC?

3. What does ifconfig say? Is your NIC up and does it have an IP?

4. If you can ping your NIC's IP then check the routing table to see that your deafult gateway is set correctly. route -n

I did the lsmod and it gave me a 1 under the used column. I cannot post it in here since I cannot get files from my linux partition into my windows partition.
The ifconfig give me an eth0 and a lo
Under the eth0 I have the following with no IP address:
Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:400:3D:74:84
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 .... and so one

So I guess instead for the UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST I should get an IP address, isn´t it?

What to do?

If ping 127.0.0.1 works it shows that the TCP/IP-stack is working correctly.
The problem here seems to be to get a DHCP lease correctly. Check the log for error messages during the DHCP query process.

The problem when using a static IP is probably related to the routing table. I think that the default gateway setting is incorrect or missing. Check with routing -n.

I did a ping 127.0.0.1 and I got this results:

64 bytes from 127.0.0.1 icmp-seq = 0 ttl 64 time = 0.010 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1 icmp-seq = 1 ttl 64 time = 0.013 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1 icmp-seq = 2 ttl 64 time = 0.010 ms

and so on ...

then I checked the /var/log/messages and I saw that for the Via-Rhine:

via-rhine.c: v1.10-LK1.1.19 July-12-2003 written by Donald Becker
http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
PCI: Found IRQ10 for device 00:12.0
PCI: sharing IRQ10 with 00:10.0
PCI: sharing IRQ10 with 01:00.0

then
eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine - II at 0xe300, 00:40:d0:3d:74:84
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 41e1

localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
NO DHCPOFFERS received 9
NO DHCPOFFERS received 12
and so on ...

then route -n gives:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref. Use Iface
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

What can I do????

Are your router responsible for handing out your IP, or do you get it from your ISP?
There seems to be some problem between your DHCP client and the DHCP server.

If you can use a static IP address then you could set the gateway manually too.
Your current config lacks a default gateway so even if you have an IP configured for your NIC then your computer wouldn't know how to handle packet with a destination other than 127.0.0.1 and your local network.