On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 7:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: > Hi all, > > I’ve just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows > 2000. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8smilh, with onboard lan (realtek > chipset RTL8101L). Mandrake works fine with everything except for LAN. > I have a link light on the rj45 socket, so everything seems alright > there. > Where my problem is, is with pinging (or anything else) else computers > on my network. We have a home network with a dlink router running dhcp, > and a win2k server running dns. > I initially set networking settings under mandrake to dhcp, but no ip > address was assigned. Instead, on startup, eth0 assigned itself an ip > address in the 192.168 (I think) range, instead of the 10.0.0.0 range > setup on the network. > I’ve tried dhcp or static ip addressing, but no luck. I’ve been using > the netconf utility under kde > Has anyone else had the same problems, or perhaps have some suggestions > as to what to do? > My /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 currently is: > > DEVICE="eth0" > BOOTPROTO="static" > BROADCAST="10.98.230.255" > IPADDR="10.98.230.5" > NETMASK="255.255.255.0" > ONBOOT="yes" > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes > IPXNETNUM_802_2="" > IPXPRIMARY_802_2="no" > IPXACTIVE_802_2="no" > IPXNETNUM_802_3="" > IPXPRIMARY_802_3="no" > IPXACTIVE_802_3="no" > IPXNETNUM_ETHERII="" > IPXPRIMARY_ETHERII="no" > IPXACTIVE_ETHERII="no" > IPXNETNUM_SNAP="" > IPXPRIMARY_SNAP="no" > IPXACTIVE_SNAP="no" > > I really don’t know where all those ipx settings came from – I don’t use > IPX. > > Anyways, thanks in advance, > Nathan
IMO using Netconf is a bad idea. The Mandrake networking wizard sets up everything your system needs. I suggest you backup your existing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and replace it with this :- DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes PEERDNS=yes That should be all you need for a simple DHCP installation. HTH derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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