-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Charlie,
I think my problem is *almost* fixed! ... read on... On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 10:02:26 AM PST, you wrote: > Have I mentioned that you have to change the connection to the > ethernet port yet? <eg> Hee hee...I have a semi-embarrassing confession (but *almost* understandable!)... Indeed...my Linksys cable modem *was* connected to the Ethernet adaptor via the proper cable. However...here's one thing that confused both Mandrake and myself... This is a new computer. My old computer didn't have the Ethernet card, so I had to connect the modem via USB. When we hooked up the new computer, while the correct connection was made to the Ethernet adaptor, the old USB cable was plugged into a USB port (though it was just hanging there...going to nowhere). I unplugged the unhappy cable to nowhere, and Mandrake no longer detects this mysterious USB connection (and no longer tries to connect to it). Just to be safe (or at least to try anything), I unplugged my modem, waited a bit, then plugged it in again, and re-started the computer (booting into Mandrake). During the boot up, Mandrake's network connection wizard detected the "new" LAN, and asked if I wanted to configure it. Yes! :-) I went through all the steps, and watched as it *successfully* detected my IP address, etc., then at the end, it said that all was successful. However... Once in KDE, I was still not connected, and the LAN Configuration in Mandrake Control Center still said this (as it still does at this moment): Interface: eth0 IP Address: No IP Protocol: dhcp Driver: sis900 State: down I tried to run the configuration wizard from the Control Center, and again, it *said* that it was successful...but still no joy. Also, when I tried to re-start, and watch the boot process in verbose mode, I saw something like this (paraphrased badly, because it went by quickly, so I'm going on sketchy memory): Interface eth0 [Failed] Interface eth1 sis900 device does not seem to be present delaying initialization [Failed]... and so on Then...I got an email from someone from a different list, and here's what he provided: ===================================================================== Mandrake Linux Update Advisory _______________________________________________________________________ Package name: drakxtools Advisory ID: MDKA-2003:027 Date: November 14th, 2003 Affected versions: 9.2 ______________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: A number of bugs have been fixed in the drakxtools package. Primarily, problems with drakconnect were fixed. The old behaviour of drakconnect to detect network interfaces was to load all of the network modules corresponding to current hardware and look for network interfaces created by the module loading. However, determining network interfaces in this way prevented drakconnect from ever seeing USB ethernet adapters. As well, the way in which drakconnect mapped real network interfaces to a logical configuration prevented drakconnect from mapping interfaces without an alias in /etc/modules.conf. Finally, drakconnect had problems handling wireless network devices correctly. The updated package also provides a more up-to-date wireless modules list so drakconnect is able to determine more types of wireless devices. A number of other smaller bugs have been repaired as well and MandrakeSoft encourages all users to upgrade to these new packages. ______________________________________________________________________ Updated Packages: Mandrake Linux 9.2: 93c41f233aea463f39f97e21cce25945 9.2/RPMS/drakxtools-9.2-19.2.92mdk.i586.rpm 2bd5241c7b74c49c8cbdb0977e1a073c 9.2/RPMS/drakxtools-http-9.2-19.2.92mdk.i586.rpm 98fd8998ebf5c1b11f2e09413502d40e 9.2/RPMS/drakxtools-newt-9.2-19.2.92mdk.i586.rpm 5c61431417ce4b5c47aec2f1136f0143 9.2/RPMS/harddrake-9.2-19.2.92mdk.i586.rpm 7008bb1b92e57666146e40fbf3025fd7 9.2/RPMS/harddrake-ui-9.2-19.2.92mdk.i586.rpm 143eabb1365119112210a3d3afba288d 9.2/SRPMS/drakxtools-9.2-19.2.92mdk.src.rpm ===================================================================== Well now, even though the above does mention "USB ethernet adaptors", and I no longer have *that* problem (never did, apparently :-)), I'm still wondering if I should need those updated bits to make even my current problems go away? In any event, I now have a question regarding this: Since when I'm in Mandrake, I can only connect using the dial-up, and the above packages are over 15 MB in size, can I, from Windows, go somewhere to search for the specific updates (and others), download them with my working cable connection, burn them to CD-R, then from Mandrake, install them from the CD-R? It sure would be a lot faster than trying to download them via Mandrake Update at this point. Thanks for your continued patience with me! :-) - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&Body=Please%20send%20keys -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE/u8p3jVbXUvsE8ukRAlflAKCq3HAEm/GFvqXlYQatjTezROB4PgCfaHLw IyAgDRHdasJLFpzUPIeneyA= =yn9x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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