On Friday 06 Dec 2002 10:23 am, greg wrote: > Hi, > I am so dissapointed with the mandrake package. It has all the looks, and > frills, but the system itself has failed me in one of the most critical > ways. No internet!
Greg, I've only vuagely read this thread, since I've been very busy and the problem wasn't altogether clear. First, between us we must access the internet in just about every way possible, so it obviously does work. Which leaves a mistake by you in your configuration. On Monday you said that your router's address was 10.0.0.138. On Tuesday you said eth0's address was 10.0.0.138. This seems wierd to me. eth0 is your local connection, surely? The router has an external number, seen by your isp, and I presume that this is the 10.0.0.138. You would, I would think, also need to give it a local lan number - usually 192.168.0.1 (or 192.168.1.1), with any machines referencing it on the same subnet, i.e. 192.168.0.x. This local number is the one that you must use for gateway, not the external one. This advice is based on the router/firewall box that I use. Realtek nics are probably the safest bet you could have, so that's definitely not the problem. I don't have an alcatel, but I believe there are specific packages you must install to run one. You said that you could not find the packages on the discs. Do I take it you don't have a full set of discs? Have you searched Mandrake's or Texstar's site for them? My experience, and that of many here, is that nine tenths of our problems are caused by our only-partial understanding of what is going on. We can help, but it still needs patience on your part. Anne
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