Greg, Sorry this is late getting back to you (I lost a hard drive so was out of commission for a bit (well, intermittantly it was going bad till it died totally)). Anyway, I'm glad you got your problem resolved. The GATEWAY issue I was referring to applied to having an ethernet card and using a modem for dial-up to the internet (particularly if you had the Mandrake install program auto-configure your network). Anyway, the errata from the Mandrake 9.0 page states:
Error scenario: You have an ethernet card for the local LAN and a modem for internet access and you can't reach the internet. Why: Drakconnect wrongly asks for a gateway, and ppp can't set your modem connection as the default route. Solution: As root, edit /etc/sysconfig/network and manually remove the GATEWAY entry. Since you are using a cable modem, it wouldn't have applied to your situation, but I wanted to post this anyway, in case anyone else was waiting on the info. Joeb On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 17:04, gklofa wrote: > Well here we are guys, this is an email coming from my mandrake > system! But I have been in this pos before, but when re-boot, loose it > all and no connection again! I am not going to re-boot at this point in > time. To get it connected this time, it did not automatically connect > on boot, I had to use the wizard again, and then select connect. > John, > tripple boot system yes. Booting through a program called system > commander. Only one nic, only need the one to connect the > router/modem. > > Here is the ifcfg-eth0 file:- > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=static > IPADDR=10.0.0.1 > NETMASK=255.0.0.0 > NETWORK=10.0.0.0 > BROADCAST=10.255.255.255 > ONBOOT=yes > > > and here is the network file > NETWORKING=yes > FORWARD_IPV4=false > HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain > DOMAINNAME=localdomain > GATEWAY=10.0.0.138 > > to me, everything looks good. > > What do you reckon, re-boot and see what happens? Maybe not be able to > get back on again!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like living life on the edge though, > so I think I will later today, when I have done a bit more > investigating, and some advice from the list. > > Also, what is the latest kernel for mandrake? I am running the one that > came with the distro, 2.4.19-16mdk. If there is a later mdk kernel, I > wouldn't mind loading it in, just incase this is a bug in the current > one. I went into the mandrake control centre, and used the update > software, but it doesn't appear to update kernels, none were listed. > This is unless this one is the most current?? The update seems to be a > bit buggy as well, it kept on dropping out on the downloads, even though > the connection was up and working well. I checked by doing a bit of > browsing. Maybe the mirror was a little overloaded at the time, will > try later. Just want to make sure I have all updates installed before > re-booting. > > regards Greg > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Joseph Braddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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