I'm using Mandrake 10, Community Download.

I'm struggling to get my VIA Rhine II network card configured and working, also struggling to get nmbd, and winbind running so that I can set up a samba server to allow windows users to connect to my system. I am also not sure if I'm following the right procedures to actually allow windows users to connect to my system. Also have no idea how to get my printer, Samsung SCX-1100 MFD, running in Linux. Have tried raw drivers as well as the HP Oficejet drivers, but none seem to work. I also went to the Samsung web-site and they also do not have any available Linux Drivers.

Any help will really be appreciated.

Thanking you in advance.

Trickle

You've got to take it one step at a time

First you'll need to get that networking card working, and then the rest will follow. I googled your card and it looks like the module for that card is called via-rhine However, I only saw it for the newer kernels (2.5/2.6) so I am not sure if you are going to have it or not. The quickest way to find out is to:
Open a terminal
Login as root:
su -
Enter root's password, and then type:
modprobe via-rhine
And see if you get anything. Feel free to post up any error messages.

Also, post up the output of typing:
lspci
into a terminal.

Cool

See, I'm running Mandrake 10, Community Download. Before that I ran Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2. The problem is, the card get's installed and everything, but it always asigns a local address, even if I'm on a network running static ip's. In windows it works fine, but not in Linux, I tried it with all three those packages and all give the same problem. No idea why :[

I'm fairly new to Linux, but i love it to bits. It's just SOOO much more interesting than windows.

Thanks anyway, I will bring it my pc to work tomorrow and hopefully I'll at least get the network card sorted out.

I tried lspci as well as ifup eth0, this is the outpu I received;

spci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5964 (rev 01)

ifup eth0:

ifup eth0
Determining IP information for eth0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented
failed.

When I rebooted my system, it also failed to get my card up and running, so I am now trying to get it running on the tulip module.