I'm having problems setting up my cable connection in Mandrake linux 9.1. I've been using redhats 8 & 9 for the past year and it always set up the connection when I loaded the OS. So, I'm not necessarily a Linux newbie. Anyhow, drakx gives me tons of problems when trying to setup my network connection I'm trying to set it up dhcp, I've run ifconfig, and it shows that my eternet card is up, I've tried putting in the ip addys(mask and all) and setting it up to be static. still it doesn't work for me. Please help!!!!!! email me (opafire@hotmail.com) or catch me on MSN Messenger.

Welcome to LQ.

So we can see how far you have got - can you post the output from:
ifconfig
route -n

I ran ifconfig route -n and ifconfig route. Here are the answers I got.

ifconfig route -n:
-n: Host name lookup failure

ifconfig route:
route: error finding interface information: device not found

They are 2 different commands - hence why I had them on 2 different lines.

To get ethernet configuration run:
ifconfig

To display your routing table:
route -n

ahh, sorry. As you can tell I'm not that sharp on networking with linux yet.

ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:5A:76:28:5F
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:492 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xd000

eth0:9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:5A:76:28:5F
inet addr:169.254.29.2 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xd000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5202 (5.0 Kb) TX bytes:5202 (5.0 Kb)

route -n:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

let me repost the route -n

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

when I post the route -n it kind of comes up funny, I guess I shouldn't have pasted it in!

It looks like you have set up aliases. Try removing your current configs:
rm -f /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*

Then setup the interface again using:
netconfig

After that restart the network services:
service network restart

If that still doesn't work post the ouptut of those commands again if they have changed.

If you post in BB CODE blocks it comes out better:

well I think I officially give up now, I did what you suggested and after restarting my network it still did not work. I really don't want to have to back to redhat because I like the way mandrake is set up better. but if I can't resolve this it looks like that's what I'll have to do

When you ran the commands did you get any errors? Was the output the same?

there were no errors when I ran the commands, it all looked like it was going to work fine. But when I restarted my network it took forever to bring up eth0, and still there was no connection to the outside world.

late last night, I put the nameserver addresses and the search path in LinuxConf. but still no help.