hello, new to linux i managed to dual boot xp and mandrake linux 10.1. after installing linux i noticed that i wasnt getting a internet connection. thinking it was just the settings i looked thru the forums and made sure my resolv.conf was setup rite and also my eth1 file was setup rite. i coped the dns settings etc from another machine that connects fine. After that didnt work i rebooted and notice that during startup in verbose mode when its doing its checks the "Bringing up eth1 failed" which is my gigabit lan onboard. i know it works b/c its still working under xp. Any ideas on what i can do to get this to turn on during boot thats n00b friendly?


my motherboard has 2 onboard lans
the gigabit and the nvidia
i have disabled the nvidia in the bios

thanks

I don't see how you got anything except eth0 if the other is disabled in BIOS.

Try Mandrake's hardware manager, remove eth1 and re-configure the internet connection.

You might "go around" the problem by making a symbolic link that points /dev/eth1 to /dev/eth0

Use at your own risk:

ln -sf /dev/eth1 /dev/eth0

ok my other onboard lan is eth0, when i installed mandrake i had both on by default so mandrake set the nvidia lan as eth0 and the gigabit as eth1. i disabled the gigabit (eth1) and enabled the nvidia (eth0) and it still fails to load at boot. 1 other weird thing is when i remove say the gigabit connection and then go back to add a new connection, it always gives me the option of adding the gigabit adapter as eth1, even though its removed and no adapters are in the list.

when i just tried

ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0

putting it to static and rebooted the eth1 no longer failed
but i didnt have a connection since my router is set to dhcp
which i really dont want on static.
im guessing i need to update some dchp files on here?