Well is it actually installed? Have you checked looking in HardDrake? Does it show the card there? Better yet, try these things: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cat /etc/modules.conf | grep eth0 alias eth0 3c59x [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep eth0 3: 1161676 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, eth0 [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 24.131.1.9 nameserver 24.131.1.8 search mw.mediaone.net [timh@r2d2 timh]$ su - Password: [root@r2d2 /root] /etc/init.d/network status Configured devices: lo eth0 Devices that are down: Devices with modified configuration: If the card shows up in /etc/modules.conf, and /proc/interrupts, the machine knows it's there for the most part, and from there all you have to do is make sure it's configured. Which you can do through HardDrake. At which point, if it's configured you need to edit your /etc/resolv.conf to make sure the machine knows where to look when it needs a DNS server. After you've configured the card so the machine knows to use it, and has enabled it, open up DrakConf and give it the settings it needs. Tell it what it's gateway is and the like, and exit out of that. From there it says it restarts the network, but I don't trust it, I always go and restart it myself. [root@yoda /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart Shutting down interface ppp0: [ OK ] Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up interface lo: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ] Once it says everything is okay, run ifconfig eth0 and make sure you have an IP address. >From there you should be all set! Hope that helps. Just sounds a bit like it's not installed is all. tdh -- T. Holmes ----------------- UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- "Real Men Us Vi!" Uptime: -------------------------------------------------------------------- 5:56AM up 1 day, 9:03, 6 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.04, 0.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Recently I installed mandrake 8.0, and everything was ok... | | But now I seem to have no network connection to the rest of the network | (can't | connect to my smoothwall machine...so no internet) | Ive ran 'netcfg' and checked the settings and IP addresses etc and all | seem fine... | even changed the network card (a pcnet32) and still ... no network!!! | It hurts to have to boot into windows just to check my mail :( | | Anybody got any Ideas why this is happening...???? | | | Thanx | | Graham | | ------------------------------------------------------------------
