Hey guys,

i have 2 systems (that work anyway) and i want to upgrade to mandrake 10.0 community
on system "B" it is already installed, and system "A" is running mandrake 9.2

My systems are as follows:
System A:
intel Pentium4 - 2.4B with 512k L2 cache (Northwood) --nice chip
Gigabyte titan GA-8IPE1000 PRO2 (onboard LAN(module:e100), audio(module:snd-intel8x0)) - mobo
Nvidia GeForce4 TI 4200 (siluro by abit)
512mb DDR(3100) X2
hda 40gb seagate (Mandrake 9.2 here)
hdb 80gb western digital (just for storage)

BTW on system "A" EVERYTHING works: audio, network/internet, graphics(with the Nvidia driver) so i want to keep it working but install mandrake 10.0

System B:
intel celeron 466mhz 128 L2 cache (Mendocino) -- The celeron is a great chip old though it is
intel i810 Motherboard (onboard graphics, audio) -- this MOBO bites
Linksys etherfast 10/100 PCI ethernet card (module:tilip)
hda 8gb seagate (mandrake 10.0)
128mb ram + 256mb (type?)

I don't use audio on this computer but i do use the internet, and while booting eth0 fails every boot

however... i can create a "new" connection in the Mandrake control center and that will fix the internet until I reboot.

All advice help ideas are welcome and appreciated

can you write error message?

I've noticed something with mandrake 10. For me at least, it detects my nic during installation, I was able to get online the first time. Then it stopped loading my modules. Try running modprobe tilip, and see if that will get you online. I don't why it stops loading them, but for reloading the modules worked.

you need to veiw your modules.conf file, or type lsmod to see if the module for the device is being loaded on boot, this is 1 main reason networks don't work at boot time.

I have the same problem. My eth0 fails at boot and it won't work even if I create a new connection. I have a LAN-connection to SDSL with HomePNA-card and I use DHCP.

Still I can see data running through eth0 when I monitor my connections. But I can't get to Internet.

This is what dmesg says:

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pcnet32.c:v1.27b 01.10.2002 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
pcnet32: PCnet/Home 79C978 at 0xd800, 00 30 be 00 2a 24 assigned IRQ 19.
eth0: registered as PCnet/Home 79C978
pcnet32: 1 cards_found.
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe1944800, 00:10:a7:16:b3:4c, IRQ 17
eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
NET: Registered protocol family 17
mtrr: 0xe0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xe0000000,0x1000000
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c035fa20(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
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...probably something wrong with IPv6, but what?

And here's what ifconfig says...

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:BE:00:2A:24
inet6 addr: fe80::230:beff:fe00:2a24/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:629 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:54897 (53.6 Kb) TX bytes:378 (378.0 b)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xd800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7702 (7.5 Kb) TX bytes:7702 (7.5 Kb)

... and I'm not sure how to interpret it, cos I'm a n00b.