I know this has been on the forums quite a few times, but none of the other threads had an answer that helped me. I just installed Mandrake 9.1, and my network connection isn't working. The card was detected (VIA Rhine III), and I installed the driver off of VIA's website (linuxfet), but something is still wrong. The interface takes forever to come up when Linux is booting, and lists several probes for a spesific address. When I run ifconfig I get:
eth0: there is too much info to retype, but there's no ip listed.


eth0:9 lots more here, including inet addr:169.254.219.141 BCAST is 169.254.255.255 and mask is 255.255.0.0

lo

I have a router here, so it should be 192.168.1.10? I've edited my ifcfg-eth0 file, nothing. I've use the configurators, nothing. I don't have the firewall running.

Any thoughs?

From a quick glance this looks like a PPPoE setup. The problem may be in the DSL setup - are you configuring against a DSL?

Could you write more about the network configuration? How many interfaces do you have? Their IPs, if possible would help, too...Plus please write which interface is connected to the router? Where do you have your router connected?

I've got a cable modem hooked up to a router. The router is a Linksys 4 port, with 3-4 computers on it at a time. It can do DHCP for many more computers, though. My computer should be on IP 192.168.1.101 (others are .102 through .104). Everything is Ethernet RJ-45, no USB. I was using RedHat and it liked my network setup fine, same drivers, router, everything.

Thanks guys

So you don't need DHCP? Try from terinal (as root):
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.101
route del default
route add default gw your_router_IP_here

when install redhat my ethernet card work fine... now when install mandrake 9.1 my ethernet card not work... only ping localhost i not have router just a single hub

Is it the same card?

Yes Mara, is a same ehternet card rhine

But I find and i maybe have solution i read in other pages, not only me and the other guy have same problem, but the problem is in drivers of linux kernel Rhine in mandrake distribution in this page have a another drivers to this card http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=71 i tried this drive and also not work maybe need compile the driver but i not have a source code of kernel, and i dont want more problems........ my solution = install Red Hat 9

Hi, there are just a few questions i need to answer please:

Ouestion 1. With LAn Configuration in mandrake 9.1 there is a box for entering eth0 information: do you leave ip address, netmask and DHCP client blank???

The boot protocol is dhcp and it is set to start on boot.

Question 2. Is internet access configured by just typing in a gateway IP address. For example, if i am using my cable modem under windows and look at the configuration data i can see a gateway ip. Can I use this same gateway ip under mandrake?

Question3. Is there a need to manually configuire other files outside of the wizard?

I cant connect to the internet with my linux mandrake machine, but i can with windows. I have the linux attached to the cable modem by ethernet card and the windows through a usb port.

Something is seriously wrong.

could you help me please?
Thanks

So you just need to check that's DHCP. Don't enter your IP or netmask.

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Question 2. Is internet access configured by just typing in a gateway IP address. For example, if i am using my cable modem under windows and look at the configuration data i can see a gateway ip. Can I use this same gateway ip under mandrake?

Yes. But if you're using DHCP, the gateway should be sent to you by the DHCP server, so you don't need to enter it.

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Question3. Is there a need to manually configuire other files outside of the wizard?

If your ISP uses standard DHCP, you don't need to. There are ISPs who require more (but not many).

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I cant connect to the internet with my linux mandrake machine, but i can with windows. I have the linux attached to the cable modem by ethernet card and the windows through a usb port.

You need to check your DHCP settings. Make sure your connection is set to use DHCP. If it still doen't work, make sure it's activated and look into your logs (/var/log/messages). All error messages go there, maybe there will be something helpful. Of course, if you find something related to your network connection and you don't know what to do with it, post the logs here.

I, too, am having difficulty with a cable modem connection under Mandrake 9.1. I had no trouble with a dialup connection. I have a BEFSX41 Linksys switch/router and just got a Motorola Surfboard modem which I am trying to connect to ComCast. I have set for dhcp. I get no connection to the web. Ifconfig shows that eth0 is UP and I get assigned DNS from the provider since I have new nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf. In fact my original /etc/resolv.conf is overwritten from the original once I try to connect to the cable system. I have tried connecting through the router and tried connecting directly to the cable modem. I have no firewall set.
If I disconnect and reset my eth0 address and set my etc/resolv.conf back to the original, I can then connect via dialup again. When I reconnect the cable modem and set the eth0 for dhcp again, the /etc/resolv.conf is rewritten, I lose my dialup ability, and I cannot get out vial the cable modem.
Ping'ing out gets the message 'Net Unreachable' or just a blank.
Comcast support just tells me they do not support Linux.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

What does your 'route' command print? Is the default route set to the cable modem?

Mara,
Thank you for your prompt reply. I was able to get my system working finally after 4 calls to comcast. The first 3 support people failed to tell me that I needed to be directly connected to the modem to register it and that I needed a proxy setting. When I got both of these set, I was able to register the modem and then reboot, now connected to the router. The problem was not Mandrake, but the settings especially the proxy settings and the registration address that was needed.

Again thank you for your help.