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Old 09-09-2005, 08:13 PM   #1
nonlintech
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Can't bring up eth0 in Mandrake 10.1 Official


I'm trying out Mandrake for the first time from Fedora Core. Everything is good for now except the internet. I'm connected on my school's lan which requires you to "login" in order to use the internet. In linux, all you need to do is try to visit a webpage and it will redirect you to the login, once you login, you're good. In Mandrake however, it says it can't bring up the eth0 interface. It makes no sence unless it actually tries to send and receive data, in which it will fail untill I log in. I went to the controll panel and it gets the DNS server addresses for my campus, but no IP information, etc. In Fedora Core it'd just bring up the interface anyway and once I logged in I was good. Does Mandrake try to send and receieve information BEFORE it lets you connect to the internet or is the ethernet connection not setting up right? Any ideas around this problem?

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Old 09-10-2005, 05:55 PM   #2
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Have you tried ifconfig? It tells you a lot about whats going on. Do you need an assigned IP or is it dhcp? Do you have the nic configd for dhcp? In mcc set the card up for lan and dhcp disable hot plugging and you should be rockin' and rollin'
 
Old 09-11-2005, 12:27 AM   #3
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Ahhhh... No go. ifconfig gives me a "bash: ifconfig: command not found" and disabling "hotpluging network" dosn't do anything either. I know its connected because it its blinking like crazy on the NIC, but Mandrake says its it can't connect. Here is the card name if anyone can get something out of it "Intel Corp.|8255x-based Fast Ethernet" is the description. It's so strange that it can't connect with Mandrake. Any more ideas?
 
Old 09-11-2005, 10:26 PM   #4
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were you su when you ran ifconfig? i believe you need to be logged in as super user or root to run ifconfig
 
Old 09-11-2005, 11:07 PM   #5
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Acutaly, I just got it to connect a few minuets ago. I had to completely disable ACPI and check "force no ACPI" in the Bootloader part of the Mandrake Controll Center. Then it fires right up. I can't get it to update, but I guess I need to make another topic for that one.
 
  


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