Newbie needs help with network(intranet)
 

hello all i'm new here so.... newbie :-)


i installed yesterday mandrake 9.0 on my server. Only i got 1 problem:

lan wont work. Linux detects network card [onboard] good. I followed the connection wizard. I give the machine a static ip 192.168.1.120 subnetmask: 255.255.255.0 gateway:192.168.1.1 hostname: server


and i try to connect but it wont work:

e-tech router: rtbr03


motherboard: elitegroup K7VTA3 5.0 ATX

can some1 pls help me

We'll need more information to answer your question. To start:

• Can you ping any host on your network?
• What's the output of ifconfig -a
• What's the output of netstat -rn

Can you ping any host on your network?
i cant

What's the output of ifconfig -a:
eth0 link encap: ethernet Hwaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:192.168.1.120 Bcast: 192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
Up BRAODCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1

RC Packets:0 errors:0 dropped:350 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:85 dropped:0 overruns: 0 carrier:0

Collosions:0 txqeuuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes (0.0 b)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe800

lo Link encap:local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe800
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:390 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:309 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqeueulen:0
RX bytes:34926 (34.1 kb) TX bytes:34926 (34.1 kb)


What's the output of netstat -rn

Kernel Ip routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 40 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth0

Is this the actual output or did you conceal the HW address in this post? If that is the actual output, something's wrong with the card or the driver for it. The fact that 100% of your packets are dropped or errors is not a good sign either :)

This points to your card and/or driver as the culprit(s). Which ethernet card do you have and what driver are you using? The latter you should be able to find in the output of lsmod.

i concealed

i installed linux mandrake 9.1 and bought a network card, its a e-tech with Realtek 8139D chipset. When i do the connection wizard i must fill in Zeroconf Host name.... what must i fill in?

and when i press connect it wont ???

when i booted i saw something writen incorrect parameters?? is that a hint?