[newbie] Determining ip information for eth0 failed

[Ralph Brown]

Title: Determining ip information for eth0 failed



Help please

I installed Mandrake8 on a Celeron box with much success, but I cant connect to my router. I have a 6 station network with windoze boxes, all of which work great. The Mandrake box is plugged directly into the SMC router..bypassing the hub (which the others are plugged into). Previously I had it plugged into the hub with the others.

Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!
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Ralph Brown
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Re: [newbie] Determining ip information for eth0 failed

[Ralph Brown]

Thanks for the heads up on html mail...i just installed this new email
client on my MAC and forgot to set the preferences.

The router is a DHCP server which provides dynamic ip#s to the clients.

I did not set up a route(not sure how to do that).

All of the clients are behind the router, which is the firewall.

How do I tell if the DHCP / bootp is running?

I do try to ping the router, but get host unreachable

Thanks!
ralph


 Ralph, 
 
 First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list.  Some e-mail
 clients add all kinds of extra html tags, reduce the size of the font such
 that it is unreadable, or change the color to a grayish color, making it much
 more difficult to read.
 
 There are several other questions that people on the list are going to need to
 know to help to resolve the problem -- for example, are these static or
 dynamic IPs (dynamic as in provided by dhcp or bootp)?  Do you have a route
 set up on the linux boxes that is the IP of the router?  Is any of this behind
 a firewall?  Have you made sure that your dhcp / bootp server is in fact
 running?  And if it is, can you get from the linux box to the dhcp / bootp
 server? 
 
 All of these questions will help the people on this list to give you advice
 targeted for your situation.
 
 Michael 

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Ralph Brown
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[newbie] XFree86-4.0.2 and Trident cyber9540

[Ralph Brown]

I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on my laptop after having much success with
7.2 on my workstation.
But...i can't seem to find the correct settings for the x-server. I
downloaded and installed XFree86-4.0.2 hoping that the SVGA driver would
cover my cardbut it doesn't.

suggestionsdirection...help pelase  :)

thanks in advance!
ralph brown
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