Did you put all the machines into /etc/hosts everywhere?
Can you ping the other machines on IP-address level? (yes: the cables and connections
are
ok, no: the cables or connections are not ok)
Paul
> Recently I installed mandrake 8.0, and everything was ok...
>
> But now I seem to have no network connection to the rest of the network
> (can't
> connect to my smoothwall machine...so no internet)
> Ive ran 'netcfg' and checked the settings and IP addresses etc and all
> seem fine...
> even changed the network card (a pcnet32) and still ... no network!!!
