Mandrake 10.1 Networking Problem
 

I recently installed Mandrake 10.1 on my system and it recognized my network interface and says everything loads fine but I cannot get it to communicate past itself. I can have it ping itself fine. But it can't ping the router it is connected to. Mandrake is saying that it is a VIA rhine II. This is an onboard adapter. I tried putting in a pci NIC and it recognized it but same problem. I plugged the cable into another computer and it works just fine. So it is not the cable. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ryan

I'm not really sure, but it sounds like a DNS issue. Are you using a DHCP or static address? You might try setting the DNS yourself, see if that helps.

I have DHCP setup but it can't get an address so I setup a static address and it can't still can't get outside of itself.

Well, an ip will assign the computer an address, but it needs DNS to negotiate outside of it's own address. DNS is what turns www.google.com into an ip address to locate that page. So without DNS you computer can see it's own card, but can't negotiate outside of that. When you set up the static address, did you also set up the DNS, or did you just assign it an ip? If you only assigned it an ip, you should go into your DNS setup and give it the ip of your router. For example, my ip is 192.168.0.119, but my DNS is setup as 192.168.0.1 because that's what my router's ip is. I would take a look at your DNS and see if it has an address and what that address is.

I am familiar with DNS and I am also familiar with networking. I know that I can ping any other ip address with or without DNS being setup. Like I said I can't get it to ping the router that it is connected to. Also other machines cannot ping it when I setup the address manually. Just for reference I have setup DNS and it still didn't work. So I don't know if the setup is wrong or if the driver is wrong.

Yeah, I dunno that much about routers either. Let me do some checking and see if I can dig anything else up.... Just a question though, are you using WEP?

This is a wired connection. So WEP shouldn't be a factor.

You're right...I should have read your first post more closely.

You said you "plugged the cable into another computer and it works fine" meaning the other computer can use the router...or you just checked the cable? Sounds dumb, but have you tried resetting the router? I know I'm not much help as I'm still a networking noob myself.

I know the router works and yes I tested the cable.

Other than maybe being a firewall issue I'm out of suggestions....hopefully someone comes along smarter than myself. :)

The mandrake firewall says that it is off. Where else do I need to check for the firewall?

Wait....I remember having this same problem one time, only with the wireless instead of the lan. I don't have mandriva installed now, but I do know I had to change something in the firewall settings. I found the answer here in here in linuxquestions.org. I'll try to find the post if I can. It can't hurt to try!

Not having luck with finding the old post. However, most of the posts I read with the same problem as yours usually had to do with the firewall. I'd play around and see what you come up with. I remember mine told me it was off too, but I had to do something really simple in there and it worked.

Any help in what that might be so I can play with it would be helpful.