hello people.
installed mandrake10, 3 times now and I had internet through it .
so I know it works. and it just simply worked, no F'in around
mobo default internet card ( eth0 )
lan -> hub -> modem (cable)
I typed in as root
[root@ujan root]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10

C:A6:CA

7
inet addr:192.168.0.15 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80: :210:dcff:fea6:cad7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2460 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:29 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:149682 (146.1 kb) TX bytes:18498 (18.0 kb)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xd800
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:598 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:598 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
colisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:47200 (46.0 kb) TX bytes:477200 (46.0 kb)
Thank you all who helps in advance !!!
:UberNo0ber