How do I get my network card to work?

Just dual booted windows xp and mandrake 9.2. My network card which is connected to my broadband router will not start in mandrake. How can I rectify this?

Please help

Iain

What kind of broadband service cable or ADSL etc.

Look at hardware section in the Mandrake Control Center. Does it show your network card? If so what does it say?

Is this an integrated NIC. Post your motherboard make and model. If the chipset is Nvidia then you might need to install some drivers.

Post the output of lspci.

Its adsl.

when booting into mandrake it gets to start interface eth0 then fails.

Im MCC it shows the network card and beside it says:

eth0 NoIP DHCP via-rhine down

if I ifconfig it gives me:

[root@localhost iain]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:AE:3D:EA
UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe400

onboard network card

Motherboard: Mercury KOBKT400

Any ideas?

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Help me please!!!

Help

i really need help, if yuo cant do it I will try somewhere else?

Thanks

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...12#post1016612 - tell us the information asked for in this link and post the results of lspci.

Its adsl.

when booting into mandrake it gets to start interface eth0 then fails.

Im MCC it shows the network card and beside it says:

eth0 NoIP DHCP via-rhine down

if I ifconfig it gives me:

[root@localhost iain]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:AE:3D:EA
UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe400

onboard network card

Motherboard: Mercury KOBKT400

[iain@localhost iain]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: STMicroelectronics STG4000 [3D Prophet Kyro Series] (rev 01)
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)

Thanks for all your help

Iain

anyone?

please

# lsmod
( to list modules loaded, you should see something about via-rhine module. Because that is the driver you need loaded for the nic to work )
# modprobe module_name
(if your nic module is not loaded use this command to load it)
# adsl-setup
# adsl-start

#ifconfig to see if you received an ip address

if this does not work, go to the manufactures website or via's website for the drivers you need and reload them.

I don't know if this will help, but I used the via-rhine drivers for my ECS mobo with a gentoo installation; however, I setup using net-setup eth0.

TheScot -- Welcome to LQ. I don't know if this will help or not, but it may be worth trying to bring eth0 down and up again

# ifdown eth0
# ifup eth0

Additionally, I'd like to point out that although it can be frustrating to wait for responses, please refrain from bumping your own posts until at least 24 hours have elapsed without any replies, per the LQ Rules Thank you -- J.W.