Ok, I did a search...and can't find anything on this...so here goes.

Running Mandrake 9.1 on a dual mp 1200 Tyan Tiger s2460 mobo, 80 gig Seagate Hard Drive, cd rom, 512 megs of RAM, TNT2 32 meg vid card, and a Dlink network card.

Mandrake install went very well, seems to have autodetected everything...yeah Mandrake!

Little interjection...I'm a MS guy, have been for a long time. I wanted to give Linux a try, and Mandrake was offered up as the easiest to learn. I have a pair of 1 gig machines that I'm planning on putting some other distru's on if I ever get teh hang of all this.

So I've got it all installed, and go to set up the network connection and internet. Set it up as a static address, on a 24 bit network, same as the rest of my network...and it won't connect. This is using the expert and wizard mode of setup.

I can get to Yahoo.com, but no other sites that I"ve tried.

I can only guess it doesn't have DNS entries...as I've not been able to locate them yet...

Can someone point me in the right direction here?

THanks,

Jeff

Don't ask questions with topics like this. Your topic has no content and hurts your chances of getting an answer.

I don't know the answer to this question. A topic like 'Can only access yahoo.com;DNS problem?' would attract the right people.

Welcome to LQ.

You can set dns servers manually in /etc/resolv.conf - each entry should be on a new line and in the form:
nameserver ip.of.dns.server

eg:
nameserver 120.234.43.21
nameserver 120.234.43.22

A dns issue does seem funny if you can get to yahoo though.

Let us know how you get on.