Hi all

I have a cable internet connection but cant get a connection in mandrake10. I got my idaddress,subnet mask,default gateway,DHCP server,DNS servers from win xp but I cant connect. I tried to turn off firewall but it didn't make a difference. any ideas on what has to be done.

as ROOT type :

ifconfig

Copy/Past here, i hope it will be helpful :/

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 00:10C:A6:CA7
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

UPDATE!! UPDATE!!

I typed > su < in a shell konsole and pressed enter. then entered my password So I could be logged in as Root in the shell konsole.
ie. [root@ujan uban]#
now I typed > dmsg | grep eth0 < ( this I'm told is to see if the drivers are installed for the ethrnet card)
ie. [root@ujan uban]# dmsg | grep eth0
Pressed enter and the following came up.
[root@ujan uban]# dmsg | grep eth0
eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xd800, 00:10:dc:a6:ca:d7, IRQ 23.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 0421 Link 0021.
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

On the one hand I'm excited as hell, on the other though I don't know what to do from here. Could someone please help me as to determine what an IPv6 router is and how I could obtain this. maybe its in my 3 cd's of Mandrake10. Also I'm pretty sure I'll need a little/lot of a direction as to what to do.
Thank you all very much , in advance.
:UberNo0ber

UPDATE!!! UPDATE!!! UPADATE!!!

I HAVE MADE INTERNET CONNECTION !!!

k, here's what i've done. I had done the what was in the previous posts, picking up these clues from other helps out there on this wide forum. Thank You all for this.
after determining that I had no IPv6 routers i decided to browes my software.
I'm using KDE interface
menu> system > packaging > browesAvailable Software
and from there i typed in IPv6 and bingo bango , there it was.
but i couldn't install it from here cus I was logged in as user.
So I had to do the following to be logged in as ROOT without going through the Shell Console to do this.( because i was using the rpmdrake to do the install for me.)
menu > sytem > configuration > KDE > sytem > Login Manager
and from here i had gone to the Users tab so I could uncheck the ROOT as it was hidden from me at log in. after this reboot session and log in as ROOT and go to browes available software.

:UberNo0ber

ive herd that roaring penguins pppoe software is also good, it's also like 400kb so it will fit on a floopy(gasp)