Hi all, and thanks to those who have replied with support (david, john, anne,joeb,alexa,marcia,jose,mark,stephan). Sorry for not replying sooner, but working very hard at the moment, and just turned my computer on today. I now have Red Hat back on, but I did a full re-install of Mandrake 9.0, and have it booting as well, in the hope I can get it working. I played around with it a bit more, by inserting red hat files into the mandrake system (johns suggestion), to see if the working RH files get it to work, but no luck. The system booted no problems, but still no internet.
Anyway, I will try to answer the questions that you all asked in one email, so that it is all in one place, and also give a run-down on what my system is, and what I have done. First, the system is a gigabyte ga-83r533 motherboard, with a p4 chip. The network card is a realtek 8139 card. My router is a Alcatel Speed Touch PRO router, obviously running through the nic card (to those who have directed me to the usb drivers and text on usb modem, I don't think this is relevant in my case??) The router has all details for connection to the internet in it's internal software. If interested, here is what is in the modems internal software: PPP (VPI 8, VCI 35) ipa ipa 150.101.208.30 255.255.0.0 eth0 10.0.0.138 255.0.0.0 loop 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 auto DHCP domain name :lan hostname: user 10.0.0.1 When installing Mandrake, I have selected (when setting up net/internet) the ethernet option, and selected bootp/dhcp instead of entering any details. This is how Red Hat is configured (ethernet connection/dhcp) and works no probs. After this, booting into MK9, internet does not work. When it is booting, the detection of eth0 fails. Running ifconfig in MK9, shows up only the "lo" details, and eth0 is not running. As a result, obviously no connection. Does not matter how many different ways I configure the connection through the wizard, it still does not work, even when I select ADSL, and choose DHCP..... If I run ifup eth0, it fails. When I run 'ifconfig eth0 -pointopoint 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0', it brings eth0 up, but still does no good, and when I run the internet wizard, if knocks eth0 out, and puts it down again. Just one more note, this last time of installing mandrake, I installed only the minimum (980mb something isntall, for a basic internet system, with gnome and kde) just incase something else being installed was interferring with the device. I have no firewall installed. When I bring up ifconfig in RH8, these are the addresses that come up: eth0 inet addr :10.0.0.1 Bcast 10.255.255.255 Mask 255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 lo inet addr : 127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0 Please note with the above, that when running ifconfig eth0 -pointopoint 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 in mandrake, the 'UP BROADCAST RUNNING' section has a word 'NOTRAILERS' in it. Does this have a critical part to play?? This is one difference between the RH8 and MK9 ifconfig display. Anne, as far as I know, the eth0's address is automatically assigned? (dhcp) and being the only device on the network in redhat, it gets an address of 10.0.0.1. The router/modems address is 10.0.0.138. I use this address (when eth0 is working) in my browser to get into the configuration of the router. This brings up the routers menu (which is web site design based) to configure everything. With regard to the alcatel packages, I found it, but I specifically states it is to do with usb alcatel modems, so I don't think I need it. You say I should be configuring it with a local lan number. How and where should I do this. Why should it not recognise the modems address of 10.0.0.138? I seriously think that something is wrong with the nic, not anything else. The nic works, as is proven in other o/s's, but the driver or something in MK9 may not be working, or the device configured wrongly. How do I test the connection/nic?? Joeb, as you can read above, I think this answers your questions. I will look at the net.conf file, and remove what you recommend and see if this works. Marcia, this was usb related so as far as I know, it is a different modem, and uses drivers for usb. Thanks Jose, love their easy to use wizards, except they don't seem to do much for me. I have also tried to bring up eth0 with ifconfig, but that also makes no difference. Buggers me why!!?? Mark, I wish I new what I am doing wrong!! as above, Buggers me why??!! Thanks very much, and hopefully with some help, I will yet get into Mandrake.
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