Hi peter,-
Actually I work for the @home network. All you need to do is call tech
support and have them repush your modem and computer and set yourself up
statically if you havent already. Also have the tech look at the whiteboard
and see if there are any outages in your area. That should take care of
your issue. If not reinstall your nic card.
Chronos.
At 07:12 PM 11/04/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>I had my @Home service working fine under Mandrake 7.1 with an Ethernet
>card which uses the Macronix MX987x5 driver. Under 7.1 my Ethernet card is
>autodetected and my Internet connection works perfectly after going through
>the network installation wizard. With 7.2 it correctly identifies the same
>Macronix driver as in 7.1, but I cannot establish an outside connection.
>
>I can ping my IP, but when I try to ping my gateway or dns server I get
>nothing. However, I know something is going on because I can see the lights
>on the cable modem blink as I try to ping the outside world. Thus, it seems
>the Ethernet card is doing something, but I'm not getting a connection.
>
>Since I know I configured everything just as I did under 7.1 I cannot figure
>out what the problem is. Has something changed with the way 7.2 configures a
>network? Any suggestions on what to try next?
>
>Another matter related to this has to do with the network configuration tool
>part of DrakConf. When I double-checked all of my network entries using this
>tool and saved any changes I noticed that field for host+domain cuts off the
>end of long names. I verified this by looking at several of the
>configuration files like /etc/sysconfig/network and
>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Since @Home provides these really
>long domain names you end up losing some of the characters if you use the
>DrakConf utility. Thus, I had to edit all the affected files to correct for
>this (not to mention reinstalling both 7.1 and 7.2 several times each - 7.1
>always works, while 7.2 always fails).
