Hi there After much tweaking, I've finally gotten my laptop successfully running Mandrake 9.0. However, I've got a few gremlins left to kill. Mainly to do with networking.
During set up it correctly detected I have 2 network cards, an Intel Pro 100/VE and a Toshiba Mini PCI Wifi card. The Intel card worked fine, and I set the wireless card not to start on boot so I could have a tweak once I got to school and within range of our wireless network. To my complete shock, eth1 which was the onboard LAN card at home, picked up a DHCP address at school even tho it wasn't plugged in, and happily functions on our wireless network here. Meanwhile eth0 is permanently down. Now here comes something even stranger. Our DHCP server gives out IPs starting from 172.16.1.30 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 making it a class B subnet. However, from my laptop I am unable to access anything that doesn't begin with 172.16.1 almost like I'm on a class C subnet. Can anyone help me out here? I'm horribly confused, stuff that shouldn't work does, and stuff that should work doesn't! ------------------------------------------------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------
