David Robertson wrote:
David,On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:41, Mark Weaver wrote: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! So annoying. Windows has no probs fully setup first time I boot in, with no further configuration, Red Hat the same, didn't have to touch a single setting to get it to work, but with Mandrake I have tried every possible combination known to me, and set everything as it should be, re-installed three times, with less and less packages installed to see if anything was interferring with the net connection, but no go. It looks like I will be getting rid of it for good, and reverting back to Red Hat, where I can at least use the system. If you don't know what problems I have had, just do a search for my posts "internet problem & mandrake 9" for an idea. I am about to go to work, but I think tomorrow, if nothing has come up and I still can't get it to work, that will be it. Unbelievable! thanks to those who have tried to help, but I can't take this anymore.I have sympathy with you. I've used Mandrake over the years and generally like it because it tries to be pretty user-friendly and generally succeeds. That's the only way we're going to get all these Window$ users over to Linux. Now, I'm no coder so can't criticise, but Mandrake's network setup has always been their worst feature: using 9.0 now, I have to reconfigure every time I start the computer: settings for dialup access just don't get saved, nor do my lan settings. I just end up using wvdial forinternet access: simple and it works. Having said that, I do still think Mandrake is a great package: they all have their faults! David
How is it that you're configuring your network and dialup settings? I've got two Mandrake 8.2 servers running. Setup network once and haven't had to touch it since. One Mandrake 9.0 server running - same thing there. My workstation at home is Mandrake 9.0 on my home LAN and again, set the Network settings when I installed the system and haven't had to reconfigure once. I dare say there's got to be something drastically different in the you and I are doing it and not something wrong with the software.
Mark
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