I am having problems using Mandrake 8.0 with my Roadrunner cable modem. My understanding is that RR uses dhcp. I selected DHCP during the Mandrake installation, but eth0 cannot be brought up during bootup. The ifconfig command lists only lo information. I have played around with both the dhcpcd command and the pump command. Dhcpcd completes without any messages, but ifconfig still doesn't show eth0. Pump (both with no arguments and with -i eth0) gives a failure message, and ifconfig still doesn't show eth0. The /var/log/messages says that dhcpcd is timing out.

I believe the network card to be installed correctly, here is the section from dmesg:

eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xdc00, 02:00:07:E3:8E:8B, IRQ 10.
eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7829 advertising 01e1.

I have a NetGear FA310 NIC, and the lsmod command shows the "tulip" module to be running, so
I think this is correct.... My ISP did not give a hostname for either of my machines, and they both work with this configuration in Windows (i.e. no hostname, DHCP selected, that's it).

The drivers for this Ethernet 10baseT card are the latest available. It's probably worth mentioning that my machine is connected to a LAN by a hub, and the hub is directly connected through the internet. I am dual booting, and Windows has no problem using DHCP to get an IP from Road Runner. Any ideas?

Your help is appreciated
-John

I have been having similar problems. I read somewhere that sometimes using dhclient instead of dhcpcd will help but I haven't been home yet to try it.

pump, dhclient and dhcpcd seem to offer different people different results.