Retracing my steps, that was a 3com 100mbps NIC that automagically installed and not the Linksys Gigabit. Sorry. I hope I didn't mess anyone up.:( It is still faster!
The cable internet seems to come up automagically on LM7.2,8.0,8.1 if the NIC comes up.I have not tried it without the router in there, though. I started with LM7.2 because I read all the bad experiences on this list with 8, and I had purchased the 7.2 set of 8cd's. 7.2 cable net worked great the first time! Formatted the drive and loaded LM8.0 from the iso disk while not on cable. When I had cable, I ran the Mandrake Control Center from the icon on the KDE desktop and ran the Network and Internet autoconfig. This eventually worked after playing with it for half an hour, or so. Formatted the drive and loaded LM8.1 while I was on cable. It came up and worked properly with no changes. Sorry again. Jim Lynch
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