Well, I have followed ur advice, Derek.
This is now the result of running the ifconfig command:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ED:69:AB:33
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:17 Base address:0x4000
eth0:9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ED:69:AB:33
inet addr:169.254.233.128 Bcast:169.254.255.255
Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x4000
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:151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:11134 (10.8 Kb) TX bytes:11134 (10.8 Kb)
When I try and ping an ip address, I receive the error message
connect: Network is unreachable
which is perfectly reasonable, seeing as how I don't seem to have an ip
address.
Also, another thing - the interrupt is here listed as 17, whereas on
startup (before lilo), the network interface is listed as being irq 11,
which I imagine would have a bearing on the matter.
Thanks,
Nathan
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Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 5:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
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
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