i recently installed mandrake 10.0 offical to install on a computer as a server but when i plug it into my d-link router it lets me goto the router configuration page but all i can do is view the site not restart the router or anything like that. and it can't acess the internet in any way. also too even though it shows data speeds it says the cable is unpluged

then i tried it with my net gear wireless router i try to acess the configuration and i just get a white screen (yet it has the right title on the webpage) yet now i can acess the internet. now i even close the router configration page and from anthor computer on the router i try to configure it but it says device 192.168.0.163 is using it. it says its pluged .

i'm lost on wat to do, did they ever program mandrake to work behind a router?

(mind you all conections were hardwired not wireless)

thanks for your guy's help

also too i'm running mandrake in higher security mode and now the reboot and halt buttions are grayed out how do i restart the box?

Open a console, SU to root and halt?

LOL i'm such a newb i forgot about console
thanks!

that still doesn't answer all of my questions

do you need more detals to work with? just ask i can get them to you

open up console and do a /sbin/ifconfig and post up in here. after that also do a modprob for you nic card and see if its detected and post the info in here so i am able to help you go on with the problem tha tyou are having..

things that you can also try

1. unplug the router from power and restart it manually.

2. you can set up a static ip address in the linux opitions with the proper DNS servers from your ISP.


also when you installed mandrake 10.0 did you do a minimal install? also please specify your computer specs that you are using mandrake 10 on

thanks

ok well i don't know too much about the specs other then its a 400mhz celeron and its got about 400mb of ram western digital harddrive and the 3 nics i'm using are all PCI

also too i din't know there was a min install, i just install all the devlopment and server / network / internet software

heres wat /sbin/ifconfig said

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:7D:76:592
inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:7dff:fe76:59d2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:650 (650.0 b) TX bytes:720 (720.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x7400

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50A:19:AF:75
inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:fe19:af75/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:5
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:378 (378.0 b)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x2480

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:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3354 (3.2 Kb) TX bytes:3354 (3.2 Kb)


i've already gone through all that kinda router set up and trying static ips.