Mandrake 9.1 not connecting
 

Just installed mandrake 9.1 and I am unable to get the network connection working. I have worked through the mandrake Control Center but to no avail.
The nic is a built in VIA VT6103 (which I would expect that Mandrake setup the drivers correctly)

Here is output of the ifconfig
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:A7:82:0C
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:67 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe800

eth0:9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:A7:82:0C
inet addr:169.254.251.14 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:554 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:554 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:46262 (45.1 Kb) TX bytes:46262 (45.1 Kb)
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One thing that I see that is wierd is the eth0:9 - what does the :9 mean?

.. And here is the output of the route -n command:
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Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
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I understand that the 169.254.0.0 has something to do w/ Samba

My gateway is 192.168.1.1.

Thanks in advance!
- TT
:Pengy:

since your gateway is 192.168.1.1, you will need a NIC with an IP in the same network as your gateway (which is usually 192.168.1.x).

once you have that, you can tell mandrake about your gateway by unsing the command:

route add -net 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.1.1

hello world!
i´ve got a similar problem on RH 8.0, but i think i´m one step further.

my gateway is
195.168.0.1

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
195.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

after typing the: route add -net 0.0.0.0 gw 195.168.0.1
i got the message NETWORK IS UNREACHABLE
but i can ping my gateway!

thnx