Thanks LX but I have worked round the problem already (will keep for future though) after a few hours of playing last night. I reinstalled 9.0 and obviously the network was fine, then I installed kde 3.1 from clubtest and the network stopped again. I removed kde 3.1 and then removed the hidden kde directories then reinstalled and it is working on 9.0. It looks like there is some kind of incompatibility between some 3.0 settings and 3.1 in the kde directories. I am going to install beta 3 tonight and I expect it to work fine now. I did run ifconfig though and all settings seemed to be correct.
Thanks, Tony. ps one day I will spend some time looking into booting more than one Linux. pps My cable connection was screwy last night and for some reason I was on a 1 meg pipe and not the usual 600k. ha -----Original Message----- From: Lyvim Xaphir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 6:47 AM To: NewbieMandrake-List Subject: Re: [newbie] Mdk 9.1 beta3 network problem On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 06:40, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed beta 3 last night on my system (formatted /, /usr and /var > but kept /home), everything seems fine except for the internet > connection. I have a realtek 8139 card. The mcc says the lan is up but > not the internet (have to run mcc from command line as menu icon does > not work). I had no probs with 9.0 and when I boot into windows the > internet is there. I looked through cooker list last night and could not > find anything similar to my problem so I assume that it is a settings > problem. Do I need to remove some of the hidden directories from my home > dir, and if so which ones, as I have a lot for programs I want to keep > the settings for? > > Thanks, > > Tony. I don't think that you are isolated in this problem. I had exactly the same difficulty and have been forced to manually configure the network routes since installing Beta 3. Run "ifconfig" from a root command line and make sure that "eth0" exists and also has an IP address assigned to it. If eth0 exists, but has no IP address assigned, then do ifconfig eth0 your.box.ip.number After that you need to manually configure the route to your gateway. If you have a persistent connection like I do, and your gateway is a cable modem or similar, then you do the following: route add default gw your.gateway.ip.number eth0 If you have a modem connection, then if I remember correctly you connect with kppp or similar utility, and then use the IP that your ISP assigns to your modem connection as the gateway. Now try to ping out to a public IP to test. HTH LX -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com <http://www.bcpsoftware.com/>
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