I've got a toshiba M40's series laptop which has XP pro on, I just dual-booted w/ Mandriva 2006. Mandriva finds the following ethernet cards under HardDrake

Wireless = Intel Pro/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
Wired = Marvell Yukon 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller

The wired yukon is shown in the configure network but I can't load up a website get a error occured while loading http://www.google.ca Or whatever website I specify.

So then I thought I'd try the wireless connection. Again its found in harddrake, and I Could load the wireless setup for Network and Internet COnfiguration, but after specifying use default or "unknown" driver it just locks up or I click next and get told no device found.

I'm pulling my hair out here trying to get this to work. Apprecaite any assistance you can offer. I should also add I'm new to linux so simple instructions would be nice...
PLEASE HELP!!! THANKS!!!

The laptop is a

Toshiba Satelite
Centro 1.8GHZ
1GHZ DDR Memory
80gb HD
Nvidia 6600 Graphics card
Mandriva 2006
KDE Version: 3.4.2
Release: 2.6.12-12mdk
Machine: i686

Taking one thing at a time, let's try and get the regular ethernet working as that is easier than wireless. With the yukon nic connected, open a console and run:

$ su
<enter root password>
# ifconfig

That gives the status of the network interfaces.

Also, see if you can ping a website using the numeric IP instead of the website name by opening a console and running:

$ ping -c3 64.179.4.146

The above is the numeric ip for this website. If you can, this would indicate a problem with DNS resolution.

Post back your results.

*****OUTPUT FROM ifconfig commmand************
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A01:BE:51:B2
inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:d1ff:febe:51b2/64 Scope:Link
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 (0.0b) TX bytes:0 (0.0b)
Interrupt:11 Memory:bc000000-0

eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-08-0D-A0-D1-BE-51-B2-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:5 dropped:5 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
Rx bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:0 (0.0b)

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: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:560 (560.0b) TX bytes:560 (560.0b)