I just installed Mandrake linux 10.0 community and I can't get my LAN working! I've configured it to death and it still wont work! I have a dual boot with win xp and it works fine there. Help please!

PC info: D-link Ethernet adapter, soyo motherboard,amd athlon 1800+, integrated video audio.

Open a terminal and type ifconfig eth0 up. What does it say? Does the device eth0 exist? If it doesn't the driver is not loaded.

"Ifconfig" is not a recognized command but i can confgure my eth0 connection in the mandrake control center. i got my ip, gateway, etc.. from windows xp and set it up manually. still no luck.
2 things i dont know if they help but, whenever i open a browser it says "resolving host connection." I have two ethernet cards. one of them is integrated the other a PCI.

You need to be root to use ifconfig.

I'm not sure how to interpret this so i just copied everything i did

[dar@192 dar]$ su
[root@192 dar]# ifconfig eth1 up
[root@192 dar]# ifconfig eth0 up
[root@192 dar]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:2C:A1:7B:6F
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd800

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:35:B4:A1
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:41 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x9f00

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:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4594 (4.4 Kb) TX bytes:4594 (4.4 Kb)
[dar@192 dar]$ su
[root@192 dar]# ifconfig eth1 up
[root@192 dar]# ifconfig eth0 up
[root@192 dar]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:2C:A1:7B:6F
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd800

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:35:B4:A1
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:41 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x9f00

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:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4594 (4.4 Kb) TX bytes:4594 (4.4 Kb)

You need to disable the eth that you aren't using. Only have the ethernet you are actually using, load. Plus, if you can't get one of the lan's to work right, just use the one that does work. That's what I did when running Mandrake. I couldn't get Mandrake to run internet with my usb ethernet adapter but it worked fine with my onboard one. If you use the onboard one, make sure it's enabled in your bios.

i disabled it still no luck, could it be a configuration error? I just took all the connection info from windoze and pasted it to linux. my lan works fine windows.

Did you see if the network was running in your network configuration? I think in Mandrake, if using kde, that there is a link in the kmenu for network. See if your network is running and your card is enabled.

Your network cards are active. Your problem is the mandrake is not obtaining an ip address from your dhcp server. Are you sure you have the net cards configured to obtain an ip address automatically. If you want to test this when you have the XP up get the ipinfo from it. I believe at a command prompt you would type ipconfig all and assign the ipinfo in mandrake statically.

If that doesn't work, try to type dhcpcd eth0 or dhcpcd eth1 depending on which card you wan't to use. You should then get an ip.

How do i set my ip statically? and this looks suspicious.

[darbot@localhost darbot]$ su
[root@localhost darbot]# ifconfig dhcpcd eth0
eth0: Host name lookup failure
ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information.
[root@localhost darbot]# ifconfig dhcp eth0
eth0: Host name lookup failure
ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information.
[root@localhost darbot]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:35:B4:A1
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4f00

[root@localhost darbot]# ifconfig dhcp
dhcp: error fetching interface information: Device not found
[root@localhost darbot]#

DHCP is not a device, it's a common protocol use to automatically retrieve an IP for the interface to use. You most likely need to configure the card to use DHCP. You can use the Mandrake control center thingy for it and make sure that DHCP is selected, or you could go on a long hunt for the network config file which is in /etc/conf.d/net in Gentoo.

I think i found the problem! when i boot up linux it says "Applying IPVS configuration changes: WARNING IPVS version mismatch" then "Kernel compiled with version 1.0.10
ipvsadm v. 1.24 requires minimum IPVS version 1.1.4"
then "module version is wrong" I have no clue how to fix this?

I'm thinking of just switching to redhat fedora. I've heard good things about it, and mandrake 10 is really buggy.