RE: [newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1?

Michael, You should first make sure that your card is logically up. You can do this by sending it the ifup eth0 command. Then make sure you can ping you own ip address. If you can ping your own ip address then try your dns server. Also you have not mentioned setting up your default route so

RE: [newbie] help! lock up when local printer setup

Is your system freezing or is the command just not doing anything? Sometimes you won't see the errors that you are getting unless you started DrakeConf from a xterm session. Try opening a Xterm session and start your DrakConf. If you are getting any errors you should see them show up on the

[newbie] Ethernet card will not come up during boot process

Hi all, I have a 3com Ethernet card on a dell 5000e laptop. I got the card configured correctly (or so I think) because I can get to the net and everything in my network. However when I first boot into Linux it fails to bring up eth0. Once the system is up all I do is type in ifup eth0