RE: [newbie] Nic problem

[Kevin Eldridge]

I have heard on here that you need to manually enter in your IP address, and DHCP information, and all of the other information. I don't think Linux detects IPs very well. When I had it try to detect my networking, it gave me some eroneous number that wasn't even anywhere near correct. At least that's what I have heard so far. I can't get my internet provider to work either. I did however read a few pretty good articles on this site:   http://www.cablemodeminfo.com/linbasics.x.html-ssi   This site has sections such as the following:       @Home,Linux and SMC Network     @Home Linux How-To It has too many articles for me to list here however. Just go by this site, it has tons of information on setting up linux on your box. I would also highly recommend printing the document out after you find the document that matches your situation.   Kevin Eldridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Ron Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 8:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Nic problem I just installed Mandrake 7.0 and I can't get the nic to my cable modem to work. The nic to the network is working ok eth0, but eth1 will not activate under DHCP in control-panel. My Cable modem ISP is mediaone which uses DHCP. Both my nics are  ESL-835-TB PCI (Nek 2000pci). I tried to activate with the Network configurator but no go. I check its configuration under Lothar and Mandrake has the card configured but I can't get it activated to get an ip address via DHCP. By the way everything worked ok with Red Hat 6.1. I like Mandrake 7.0 but I will probably go back to Red Hat 6.1 if this is not resolved soon.   Thanks,   Ron Warren