Rog wrote:
>
> Anyone use DHCP to connect to your cable ISP? I do, (optimum online)
> and 8.0 doesn't seem to want to do it...in 7.2, when I'd boot up, it
> occasionally wouldn't go online, but I just type in (as root)
> /sbin/dhcpcd and away it would go! No such luck here. Any tips?
>
> Oh, and when eth0 is initializing at boot, it hangs, and then says
> something along the lines of timing out because it can't find a valid
> IP or something...yet Windows goes online just fine...
>
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:18:49 +0200, you wrote:
>
> >After the installation I had the same problem with ppp, but I fixed this
> >problem by putting additional lines in my modules.conf in accordance with
> >kernel 2.4.2 changes doc for using ppp as modules.
> >
> >Andris
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> >Behalf Of Neville Cobb
> >Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:40 PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Cc: Vic
> >Subject: Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8
> >
> >
> >Vic wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello list.
> >>
> >> Upon installing the new Beta Mandrake Traktopel 8
> >> release on a system using an AMD K6-400 cpu,
> >> 192Mb system ram, S3 Virge video card, 10Gb Quantum harddrive UDMA 33,
> >> with VIA chipset, AWE64 Soundblaster ISA card, a zip250
> >> using the zip zoom card (aic7xxx), an old unix BTC cdrom,
> >> and lastly a Plextor 8/4/32A Cd recorder.
> >>
> >> I found the installation went ok in expert mode, one little hang up on
> >> setting up networking, it would not let you click on yes or no,
> >> BUT, you could bypass this by going on to the next step,
> >> then when it cama back, you could just click on uhh, skip or
> >> something like that, and do it later after installation finished.
> >
> >I had the same problem an could not connect to the internet via a modem
> >after the installation. Following your install were you able to connect
> >via ppp? If you could then I must be doing something wrong.
> >
> >Nev
> >
> >
> >
> >
It's not fair to compare any beta with a finished product.
--
Roman
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