I'm totally new in the field of Linux, and just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a ext2 partition blabla, next to my FAT32 file / windows partitions. I booted linux without problems, but when I tried to make a connection with the internet it failed completely.

specs :
2 ethernet cards (eth0 / eth1 ?)
Cable (telenet - Belgium)
proxy.pandora.be port 8080
auto script: pac.pandora.be:8080

I tried to fill in these properties in the browser but that failed miserably . Every time the connection attempt failed.

I've already posted this at the distro forum, but I didn't quite get the response I wanted ;p

How exactly did it fail? Can you access any sites at all?

I just can't access the net, it's just like the ethernet cards aren't installed or badly configured.

What happens if you type "netstat" at the terminal?

At the startup I get :
ACPI daemon [FAILED]
Don't know whether this is crucial to my system or not

Bringing up interface eth0 and eth1 takes a long time, then it sends 4 probes, blabla, claims IP address

Netstat :

Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path
unix 15 [ ] DGRAM 3196 /dev/log
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6218 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6217
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6200 /tmp/.ICE-unix/2058
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6199
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6197 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6188 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6187
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6170 /tmp/.ICE-unix/2058
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6169
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6167 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6166
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6161 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6160
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6141 /tmp/.ICE-unix/2058
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6140
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6136 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6135
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6134 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6133
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6097 /tmp/.ICE-unix/2058
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6096
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6089 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6088
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6086 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6085
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6080 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6079
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6077 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6076
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6046 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6045
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6047 /tmp/ksocket-tsunami/kd
esktopDuvpqb.slave-socket
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6043
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6049 /tmp/ksocket-tsunami/kd
esktop306cRa.slave-socket
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6037
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6048 /tmp/ksocket-tsunami/kd
esktopoRZHsa.slave-socket
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6035
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6018 /tmp/.ICE-unix/2058
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6017
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6013 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6012
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6011 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6010
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6002 /tmp/.famh4LtSF
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 6001
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5994 /tmp/mcop-tsunami/Tsuka
h-0805-3f0966a7
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5993
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5968 /tmp/mcop-tsunami/Tsuka
h-0805-3f0966a7
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5967
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5958 /tmp/.ICE-unix/2058
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5957
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5953 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5952
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5951 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5950
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5945 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5944
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5932 /tmp/.ICE-unix/2058
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5931
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5929 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5928
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5923 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5922
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5918 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5917
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5911 /tmp/ksocket-tsunami/kd
einit-:0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5910
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5875 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5874
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5873 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5872
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5840 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5839
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5808 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5807
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5791 /tmp/.famwZ13Gm
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5790
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5778 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5777
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5765 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop2038
-1057580701
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5764
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5759
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5758
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5666 /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5665
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 5445
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 4365
unix 6 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 5681 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4354
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 4309
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 4261
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 4256
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4238
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4237
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4234
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4233
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4230
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4229
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4226
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4225
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4222
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4221
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4218
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4217
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4214
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4213
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4210
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4209
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4206
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4205
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4202
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4201
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4198
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4197
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4194
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4193
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4190
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4189
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4186
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4185
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4182
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4181
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4178
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4177
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4172
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4171
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4168
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4167
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4164
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4163
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4161
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4160
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4157
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4156
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4154
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 4153
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 4140
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 3811
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 3581
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 3535
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 3458
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 3454
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 3255
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 3207
unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 3079


I hope this can give you an idea of my problem

*bump* anyone?

Well ACPI has to do with powermanagement so I don't think its causing this problem.

What does ifconfig tell you? does it give you info on eth0?
if you only get info on 'lo' then your NIC is not up, which narrows it down a bit.

Why do you have two NIC's?? are you sharing your internet connection on a LAN?

Does you cable company gives you an IP by DHCP? If yes, is the NIC that is connected to the cable modem configured to get an IP by DHCP?

yep, the second nic is for internetsharing in LAN. (older pc, running win98). checking ifconfig...

DHCP?
We get an ip every time we reboot (or something like that). I thought I set my NIC to auto-receive IP

[root@Tsukah tsunami]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C1:26:01:B3:0C
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:4140 (4.0 Kb) TX bytes:4629 (4.5 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x7f00

eth0:9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C1:26:01:B3:0C
inet addr:169.254.171.88 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x7f00

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:02:A0:44:6D
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:11690 (11.4 Kb) TX bytes:2412 (2.3 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xb800

eth1:9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:02:A0:44:6D
inet addr:169.254.113.176 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xb800

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:169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10145 (9.9 Kb) TX bytes:10145 (9.9 Kb)



I hope this is useful

Have you tried configuring it through the Mandrake Control Centre?

If you set up which every network card the cable modem is plugged into to use dhcp it should work fine.

Dizzy

I think that you're not getting an IP from your ISP. Try:

netconfig -d ethX

change X for the number of NIC that is connected to the cable modem

After that type:

ifdown ethX
ifup ethX

That's to renew you IP info from ISP

Tsunami, angelrod was hitting something there. Is your cable provider dhcp? Almost all residential cable services in the United states do, so if you are in the US, you are dhcp unless youve got a buisness static ip. Dynamic IP, changes every so often, or atleast its supposed too, some people have had theres for over a year. - Point being,no way it will connect on earth if you dont set your card to obtaining that info automatically.

double post

yep, I did this. I had another try : set the first nic at DHCP and the other at Static with 192.168.0.1 (could be wrong, not really important at the moment) et cetera. Now, from this moment on everything went reeeaaaal slow. But, really, slow I tried to reboot, and the Bringing up interface eth0 / eth1 wasn't slow anymore. The probing part was skipped (h00ray). Still, I couldn't connect. I tried filling out the proxy server again and again (I know myself errors are being made all the time). I gave up, rebooted in winXP, discovered that my inet was down. At this point Maybe Linux that changed the ip of my modem ... blah. Disconnected modem, rebooted pc and winXP inet worked.

I'll try those commands to refresh the ip later on. Does anyone have any idea why Mandrake is suddenly so slow?