I'm having a very strange problem with my mandrake internet. For over six months I have had a mandrake 9.0 server running; no problems. Later I put mandrake 9.2 on a dual boot with my windows computer. This is when things got odd.

Internet did not work on that dual-boot. Everything was properly configured; I tried both DHCP and static. After installing mandrake PPC 9.1 on a spare mac at my house, I had the *exact* same problem. Now for the really weird thing: after working flawlessly for six months, my server (mandrake 9.0, you'll recall) suddenly encounters the same problem. Now I KNOW this one is properly configured, it was working for a very long time. I thought about a DNS problem, but I can't even ping my router via IP. I receive "Destination Host Unreachable" messages. Here's some relevant info....

ifconfig:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:4D:01:1B
inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:79 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:4740 (4.6 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xd000

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:137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12226 (11.9 Kb) TX bytes:12226 (11.9 Kb)

route:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Try this:

route add default gw eth0

NOTE: I'm not exactly sure of the syntax of that command, as I'm not at home now, but man route has examples towards the end you can check.

Actually I don't think the above post will help much. You do need to set the default gateway but I don't know what that is. It looks like most likely it will be 192.168.0.1.

route add default gw 192.168.0.1

Okay, I solved it myself. A bad NIC. Not that it broke or anything, but it is really, really hard to put the cable in the NIC. Go fig.