I recently installed Mandrake 10 on my system as i was having problems installing my Nvidia FX 5200 on SUSE 9.1 Personal. I have practically everything else working except for my internet connection.
I connect to the internet through a DHCP LAN Connection and I am able to access the net via XP Pro SP2. Even SUse9.1 connected without any complications. In mandrake it tells me that I am not connected to the lan and in MCC when i click connect for eth0 under monitor connections I get a message saying I am not connected to the internet.
So how do i get Mandrake to connect?
I am a newbie to Linux and would prefer to solve the problem without getting down and dirty in the config files but if theres no alternative I will go ahead and do that

My Network Information From Windows Is given below. Unfortunately I removed SUSE and I cant paste any info from that.

Physical Address: 4C-00-10-B6-42-56
IP Address: 192.168.1.48
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway: 10.0.0.1
DHCP Server: 10.0.0.1
Lease Obtained: 9/1/2004 4:06:50 PM
Lease Expires: 9/1/2004 5:06:50 PM
DNS Server: 10.0.0.1
WINS Server:

My hardware is :
ASUS A72V66M M/board with athlon xp 1800+
Generic REaltek 8139 chipset based NIC
SB Live 5.1
If anymore info is required please let me know
Regards,
Bodhisatva

Here's something quick you can try. Reboot and as soon as you see the lilo splash screen hit the Esc key which will take you to a boot prompt. At the prompt, type:

linux noapic nolapic

and hit the Enter key. That will start mdk w/o apic support which I've seen cause this problem in several mdk installs with realtek nics. Try connecting to the internet. If it works, post back and I'll show you how to turn off apci so you don't have to enter the above everytime you boot. If it doesn't, we'll have to dig into your configuration deeper.

Can you log in as root and write down what information is returned for 'ifconfig eth0'? Can you also tell us what's listed in /etc/sysconfig/nework-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ?

hey kt and nafan.
i tried the noapic and nolapic....didnt work....monitor connections in MCC shows network activity when i try to connect but always fails.
I have given the details of ifconfig eth0 and etc/sysconfig/nework-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 below. Please do let me know if you need anything else.

ifconfig eth0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 4C:00:10:B6:42:56
inet addr:192.168.1.48 Bcast:192.168.1.48 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3142 (3.0 Kb) TX bytes:684 (684.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000


/etc/sysconfig/nework-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.0.102
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.08
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
ONBOOT=yes
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=""
NEEDHOSTNAME=yes

regards,
bodhisatva

If your lan is dhcp, why are you using a static address? Try reconfiguring the network connection in mcc to use dhcp.

kilgoretroutoops sorry it was a backup of an ifcfg file which someone suggested i use.
The actual ifcfg-eth0 file is:
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=""
NEEDHOSTNAME=yes

Sorry for the SNAFU.
hope this helps
regards,

I won't pretend to be an expert, but this is a bit odd... from your ifconfig output:

Your broadcast address is specifically to 192.168.1.48; the last number is usually ".255" which means broadcast to every machine under the "192.168.1.anything" umbrella. If your computer thinks it's broadcasting to the router (which is presumably 192.168.1.1 --are you using a Linksys router?) but it's actually just sending it to 192.168.1.48, then the router wouldn't hear.

To set the broadcast, use the command:

ifconfig eth0 -broadcast 192.168.1.255


I'm not sure why it showed that it transmitted and received some bytes. Are you able to access your router through another computer and see whether the router thinks the Mandrake computer has connected?

Nopes didnt work.
Thanx anyway
regards
bodhi

i encountered the same problem as bodhisatva
(bringing up eth0 ...<FAILED> on MDK10 boot up). lucky for me i searched for some forums and click on the link which directs to this thread.

i tried doing what kilgoretrout suggested... "linux noapic nolapic"... it worked for my case. i would just like to know how can i automatically turn off apic?

thanks to kilgoretrout. you're cool!