Roman You will probably need to download and instll the driver for your NIC. Just go to www.3com.com I think you go to support and Linux drivers. Glad to know you made it. Now you are an official member of the club. Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 9:39 PM Subject: [newbie] Try to add TCP/IP to Linux Mandrake 7.0 > Now that I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 on my D partition, I would > like to be hooked up to the Internet. > For some reason, I could not find the 3Com Ether link 10/100 PCI NIC ( > 3C905C-TX) card. I also have the > following information for TCP/IP Protocols: > > IP address: xx.xxx.xxx.xx > Subnet Mask: 255.255.xxx.x > Gateway: xx.xxx.xxx.x > > Host Name <- computer name > Domain: > (This is the .com name assigned by the @Home Service > Domain Suffix Search Order: xx.x.x.xx > xx.x.x.xx > > However, Linux has this listed in a couple of places. Has any one added > their static IP addresses with success? > I assume this has to be changed under ' root '. > > Roman > >