Hi, I just installed mandrake 10.0 dual boot with windows xp, both on seperate drives. I am new to linux. The set up went fine, however, I cant access the internet. It seems to detect the card but i cant access the internet. I did a search for hours and found conflicting info. Apparently my card does not support linux on the other hand I read you can configure any card for linux in the kernel. My card is ---SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI (SMC1211 Series)--- Please help, I am anxious to get started with linux and give micro the boot. Thanks in advance. Oh yes, Im on a lan as well, The router is in my roommates room (he has xp and is a network tech, just no experience with linux) and I just connect to him and then out.

Is your network DHCP? If so, does the network card get an IP? If not, are you able to ping 'localhost' and whatever your LAN IP happens to be? If you can ping both, then try pinging your gateway, and your DNS server.

Please also post the results of "dmesg" too. This will tell us if the module for your NIC is being loaded.

Next, please post the results of "ifconfig -a".

Lastly, Please post the results of "route".

That should give us entough to diagnose your problem.

Cheers,

MrKnisely

Ok, sorry if this is a dumb question, I guess I am really a noob! Where do I type these messages in? the "dmesg" and the other's. And since I am new to Linux what would I save the results too, or what in Linux is the same as notepad or word in windows? Thanks for the help guys, i really appreciate it.

The following commands should work for you. Just type them in at a command prompt. You may need to have root access for some of these commands.

dmesg |tee ~/dmesg.txt

ifconfig -a |tee ~/ifconfig.txt

route |tee ~/route.txt

This will output the the data from these commands to a three .txt files and place them into your home directory.

You can actually just run the part before the | if you'd like. The " | " is what is called a "pipe." It takes the output of one command and inputs it into another command. The "tee" command takes the output and splitts it into 2 streams. One goes to your screen and the second goes to a file.

As for a "notepad" style app for linux there are LOTS. Personally I've gotten comefortable with managing my text files at a command (vi, nano, etc) line so I don't use many graphical text editors. Check your menu under accessories. There's usually a "kedit" in the KDE desktop.

I recomend learning how to manipulate text files from the command line though. Linux has some very powerful tools when working from the command line. It's worth the effort.