[newbie] dhcpd can't find eth0

2001-11-22 Thread Cliff Bowman
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. (If you're outside the US, Happy Thursday?) I can't seem to get my system to network properly. When I try to ping it from another (known good) machine, nada... Looking at the boot.log file shows that the ifup process fails, then immediately thereafter the

[newbie] prefxdm just exits

2001-11-18 Thread Cliff Bowman
Hi-- I'm trying to run the Mandrake Powerpack Edition 8.0 on my laptop, and I can't seem to get the video configured correctly for X. The latest symptom is that prefxdm runs for a while, prints Press return to continue to stdout, and then exits. Hardware: Sharp PC-BJ150M (Japanese domestic