You do know what the netmask is right? It might just be worth runing the mandrake networking Wizards from control panel and setting it up again that might clean up any config errors that have crept in there from somewhere.
Chad On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:50 am, you wrote: > Hope someone can help me out here. > > Over the weekend I installed Mandrake 9.1 on a spare partition. I did > this so that if Cooker broke something major, I had a spare stable > system to boot into. All went well and I setup /home to be shared > between cooker and stable. All went fine and I could boot either install > having access to all /home stuff. I also upgraded my Cooker install to > get the latest kernel and a few other bits and pieces. The problem is > that now (after configuring my external modem) that I cannot connect to > the net with EITHER install. It tries to connect but immediately after > it says "logging onto network" (I use KPPP), the conn dies and it > redials. I have NEVER had a problem with this modem and it is > autodetected by linuxconf just fine. I checked in /var/log/messages and > it says something about an invalid netmask??? I didn't set up a netmask > and I am at a loss to find any reason for the problem. > > Ideas?? > > Cheers > > Jason
