I have just installed Mandrake Linux 10.1 for the first tiem n need help setting it up. I have 2 problems with setting it up

1. My internet Connection - I am running a small wireless LAN in my house using a cable modem with a dl-514 router on it. My pc is connecting through a cat5 cable to the router. What ever i do i can't connect to it in linux. It is obviously detecting my network card but i don't know how to configure it to connect to the net. Please can you help? instructions in simple english please. I have just started using linux.

2. My sound card - I am using a Audigy2 sound card which sorround sound. Mandrake will configure my on board sound card fien but not this one. How do i configure it to play through that card on a particular channel. In windows i use the rear ouput on the card for all my sound.

Any help would be much appreciated.


Bob

Tell the respective drake (e.g. netdrake or whatever
they call their wizard) to use dhcp ... you should be
able to find it under system on your KDE menu.



Cheers,
Tink

I have tried telling it to use DHCP in the wizard but to no avail.

Bob

Open a console, become root ("su -") and do the
following ... please post the output

lsmod
ifconfig
route
cat /etc/resolv.conf


Cheers,
Tink

when i try those commands in the terminal i get this repsonse:


[bob@localhost bob]$ su -
[root@localhost root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
nfsd 189408 8
exportfs 4736 1 nfsd
lockd 58344 2 nfsd
sunrpc 127652 2 nfsd,lockd
lp 9548 0
parport_pc 30976 1
parport 33896 2 lp,parport_pc
usblp 10592 0
rfcomm 32348 8
snd-emu10k1 90728 0
snd-rawmidi 19300 1 snd-emu10k1
snd-pcm 81800 1 snd-emu10k1
snd-timer 20356 1 snd-pcm
snd-seq-device 6344 2 snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi
snd-ac97-codec 69392 1 snd-emu10k1
snd-page-alloc 7400 2 snd-emu10k1,snd-pcm
snd-util-mem 3232 1 snd-emu10k1
snd-hwdep 6916 1 snd-emu10k1
snd 45988 7 snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-seq-device,snd-ac97-codec,snd-hwdep
soundcore 7008 1 snd
af_packet 16072 0
floppy 55088 0
via-rhine 17572 0
mii 4224 1 via-rhine
md5 3584 1
ipv6 230916 14
ide-cd 37280 0
cdrom 37724 1 ide-cd
ohci1394 30788 0
ieee1394 292056 1 ohci1394
loop 12520 0
nls_cp850 4480 1
vfat 11168 1
fat 39776 1 vfat
nls_iso8859-15 4224 2
ntfs 147964 1
via-agp 7360 1
agpgart 27752 1 via-agp
hidp 11296 2
l2cap 19876 10 rfcomm,hidp
hci_usb 10912 6
bluetooth 39076 16 rfcomm,hidp,l2cap,hci_usb
joydev 8032 0
tsdev 5824 0
evdev 7648 0
usbmouse 4256 0
usbhid 41088 0
ehci-hcd 26244 0
uhci-hcd 28752 0
usbcore 103172 8 usblp,hci_usb,usbmouse,usbhid,ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd
ext3 120680 1
jbd 49080 1 ext3
[root@localhost root]# ifconfig
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:3716 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3716 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:264767 (258.5 Kb) TX bytes:264767 (258.5 Kb)

[root@localhost root]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
[root@localhost root]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
[root@localhost root]#
[root@localhost root]#

OK ... seems that the network card is actually detected,
its module is being loaded. On the command-line, again
as root, try the following:

dhclient eth0

and tell us what output you get ... if you get nothing it
should be all good and ifconfig should give you more
than the lo interface.


Cheers,
Tink

sorry forgot to include ifconfig
thi si it:


root@localhost root]# ifconfig
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:12845 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12845 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:943921 (921.7 Kb) TX bytes:943921 (921.7 Kb)


I'll try dhclient eth0 and let you know

okay so that printed out this


[root@localhost root]# dhclient eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0a:e6:ec:d1:f6
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0a:e6:ec:d1:f6
Sending on Socket/fallback
receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
send_packet: Network is down
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.


I have no idea why it can't find the network. Anymore help wold be much appreciated.


bob

Hmm .. more info:

What does lspci -v give?


Cheers,
Tink

okay
that gave me this response


00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: e0000000-e1ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1007
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
I/O ports at c000 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04)
Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 0060
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at c400 [size=8]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:0a.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
Memory at e2004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
Memory at e2005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
I/O ports at c800 [size=128]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems L7VTA v1.0 Motherboard (KT400-8235)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
I/O ports at cc00 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems L7VTA v1.0 Motherboard (KT400-8235)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems L7VTA v1.0 Motherboard (KT400-8235)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems L7VTA v1.0 Motherboard (KT400-8235)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
Memory at e2006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems L7VTA v1.0 Motherboard (KT400-8235)
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems L7VTA v1.0 Motherboard (KT400-8235)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 27
I/O ports at d800 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine II] Embeded Ethernet Controller on VT8235
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Memory at e2007000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1047
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

I am confused, I must admit ...

sit0 in the error message from DHCP suggests that it's
looking for a wireless thingamabob, but I can't see one
in lspci ... if there were one present that I can't see the
order in which the interfaces are presented may be
stuffed ... try
dhclient eth1


Cheers,
Tink