seems like a lot of people are having network problems for mandrake 10.0 and 10.1. i'm one of them :P
well, doing extensive reading through this forum, here are what people suggested :
1. in MCC, in boot option, check "Force no APIC"
2. Uncheck "Network Hotplugging" for network device.
3. Run as root :
ifconfig eth0 down
route del default
ifconfig eth0 up <IP desired address for your ethernet card>
route add default gw <IP address of your gateway>

none of these worked for me so far. anybody else have any idea what to do?

I'm using a Gigabyte-7NNXP motherboard, with 2 onboard network cards, one 10/100, another a gigabit ethernet card. I'm using the 10/100, and that's eth0.
another thing, can anyone tell me what to fill in the MCC network configuration wizard? just to verify whether i'm doing it correctly. I always fill 192.168.0.1 for both gateway and DHCP server, is that correct? I always leave zeroconf hostname empty, and the optional hostname empty too.

And the problem is.. no network at all :P i can ping localhost but nothing else, not even my 192.168.0.1 (my router)

Thanks! help much appreciated

I just upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 and my network and sound wouldn't work. For some reason the modules refused to load, even when I tried to insert them manually. I had to switch to my last kernel (usually called old linux) in the boot menu. Now everything works just fine. I know this is not an elegant solution but the 2.4 kernel modules work.

assuming there's no option for linux-old in grub, (running mandrake 10) what should i do to make it use the 2.4 kernel?
thanks

Start by seeing if drivers have been loaded for your interface.

Post the output from

ifconfig

route

cat /etc/resolv.conf

lsmod


here so we can see.

will do... meanwhile though, can anyone tell me what to tell grub so it will use the 2.4 kernel?
thankies!

ifconfig :

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:50:00:B43
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5356 (5.2 Kb) TX bytes:3456 (3.3 Kb)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x3000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:61:3B:30:1F
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 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x9400 Memory:e1000000-e1020000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:141182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:141182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5832445 (5.5 Mb) TX bytes:5832445 (5.5 Mb)


route :

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


cat /etc/resolv.conf :

nameserver 192.168.0.1
nameserver 192.231.203.3


lsmod :

Module Size Used by Not tainted
sg 34588 0 (autoclean) (unused)
st 30840 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sr_mod 18936 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sd_mod 13324 0 (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod 107360 4 (autoclean) [sg st sr_mod sd_mod]
lp 7712 0
parport_pc 25544 1
parport 34568 1 [lp parport_pc]
snd-seq-oss 30208 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 6144 0 [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 44720 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss 43396 0
snd-mixer-oss 14224 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-intel8x0 22728 3
snd-ac97-codec 52748 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm 79748 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 18788 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 8948 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
gameport 3268 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart 4800 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 17344 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 5536 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd 44036 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 6244 0 [snd]
nfsd 74128 8 (autoclean)
af_packet 14312 1 (autoclean)
ide-floppy 15776 0 (autoclean)
ide-tape 48240 0 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33092 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 34048 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
floppy 55644 0
ipt_TOS 1560 12 (autoclean)
ipt_MASQUERADE 2072 1 (autoclean)
ipt_REDIRECT 1304 2 (autoclean)
ipt_REJECT 3864 4 (autoclean)
ipt_LOG 4152 6 (autoclean)
ipt_state 1016 24 (autoclean)
ip_nat_irc 2992 0 (unused)
ip_nat_tftp 2480 0 (unused)
ip_nat_ftp 3696 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_irc 4112 1
keybdev 2596 0 (unused)
mousedev 5140 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_tftp 2352 1
ip_conntrack_ftp 4848 1
hid 23940 0 (unused)
input 5696 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
ipt_multiport 1176 0 (autoclean)
ipt_conntrack 1496 0 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2316 1 (autoclean)
iptable_mangle 2712 1 (autoclean)
iptable_nat 20782 4 (autoclean) [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT ip_nat_irc ip_nat_tftp ip_nat_ftp]
ip_conntrack 28068 3 (autoclean) [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT ipt_state ip_nat_irc ip_nat_tftp ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_tftp ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_conntrack iptable_nat]
ip_tables 15072 13 [ipt_TOS ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG ipt_state ipt_multiport ipt_conntrack iptable_filter iptable_mangle iptable_nat]
e1000 72644 1 (autoclean)
forcedeth 10060 1 (autoclean)
ohci1394 27536 0 (unused)
ieee1394 202180 0 [ohci1394]
nls_utf8 1312 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5116 2 (autoclean)
vfat 11948 2 (autoclean)
fat 38424 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount 81888 2 (autoclean)
ehci-hcd 19948 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 21080 0 (unused)
usbcore 75148 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-ohci]
rtc 8652 0 (autoclean)
ext3 60400 3
jbd 39552 3 [ext3]


anything else? i hope that sheds some light.
thanks again!

Interesting:

Did you manually configure the eth0 port or was it configured via DHCP?

You may have a problem with what the LAN card believes it can use to communicate with your router/hub.


This is a common problem.

See this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=223704

Also what do you have on eth1 ?

And is it plugged into anything?

eth1 is a gigabit ethernet card for 1000mbps ethernet. nothing's plugged into it.
the eth0 port should get its IP from DHCP. but i know that the router assigns me 192.168.0.2 usually (when i'm on Win)
thanks!

Yes but in the above case, had you manually configured the card?

I'm wondering if what you posted reflects that the card had indeed obtained an IP address or if the configuration was due to what you did manually.

I am having exactly the same problem, but I have tried the on-board LAN as well as a card that was working with a previous version of Mandrake.

I have tried all of the above (with the exception of 1 - What's MCC?) and can only ping my own IP address. I have tried both DHCP as well as fixed addressing and they both react the same way.

On a similar note, I noticed that when running DHCP and monitoring my DHCP hosts on my DHCP router, I can see the Mandrake box appear momentarily (as if its trying to connect.)

thanks for any suggestions...

MCC = Mandrake Control Center

noapic or nolapic (which is a bit better afaik) is required with some kernels on some systems.

It's unlikely that it's "exactly the same problem".

It is likely that if Mandrake worked for you before but not after the upgrade and your card module was loaded, as was his above, that the problem is one where the media sense is being trounced.

That is, the card is negociating the wrong media type for your connection.

Check out these threads.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=223704

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=240418

Well you're right - it can't be exactly the same (we have different nics.)

However, mine was a new install on new disks - not an update - I had Mandrake on the same "computer" but I upgraded the motherboard/CPU/disks and decided to install a fresh (and more recent version) of Mandrake - the old one was getting on four years old!

I had already seen the first thread and had tried the solutions listed - to no avail. I will try the second thread's solution (alias net-pf-10 off & alias ipv6 off in modprobe.conf) when I get home this evening...

Thanks for your help!

So start a new thread, to keep things seperate, and post the output of all of the indicated files.

e.g.

cat /etc/resolv.conf

ifconfig

cat /etc/modules.conf

lsmod

etc.