[newbie] Cable Internet

[Raymond Wells]

Still trying to connect to Cable internet. Mandrake 7 found NICs for
eth0 and eth1
Have input ip, host, domain, gateway and namesserver info but on startup
I get message "starting http  .....  failed"  this is the only failure
message in startup...I am then told it "cannot activate local host name
....." do something with "Server Name directive ...."  info scrolls past
pretty quickly.

Any help to get this machine connected would be much appreciated..
thanks
Ray Wells