>From: "Spencer Ogden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Spencer Ogden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Ehternet
>Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:39:58 -0600
>
>Sorry to ask such a newbie question, but...
>
>I just installed Mandrake 6.5, not sure which version of Redhat this
>corresponds to. Everything is great and I'm having a good time
>learning my
>way around the system. But I can't get Ethernet working.
Nothing unusual, it happens... What you need to do is try hard to
reinterpret the parameters and reconfigure the network. Like sometime (what
I saw in case of RH 6.2) it asks to enter "local host" as Host name
parameter, the next screen asks not to do that, it's researved for "other
purposes".
It's better not to rely entirely on autodetection procedure, do something
manually as well.
The parameters where I stumbled most were: "Network", "Broadcast", "Host
name", and in DNS entries. While setting up adapter parameters, configure
only one adapter if you have single internet provider.
So the following is what I would suggest you to try:
Network : LAN -- if you have LAN connection
Broadcast: spencero (perhaps, I forgot what I did)
-- your account name to the provider
Follow client network configurations
Host name: spencero -- once again (safer perhaps)
"primary name + domain" or similar dialog box
: mail.utexas.edu
Aliases : mail
Default domain : -- better to keep it blank
Try with this, carefully interpret the dialog box parameters, and re-enter
the network addresses once again, hope it will work.
>I have tried both
>linuxconf and going through the various interface startup scripts,
>everything seems to be set up fine. I am sending this message from
>Win98 on
>the same machine, so ev3erything is working. This leads me to believe that
>my card is not supported, even though the install program recognized it as
>a
>tulip compatible card and it is based on an Intel chip, pretty mainstream.
>Also the eth0 interface comes up fine, but the more I ping my
>network, the
>more errors are shown for it.
Once again, do not really get disheartened with error messages. At the end
it may not actually be a proper message for your system configurations. Also
not to fill all the dialog boxes, don't be afraid; but placing any wrong
parameter will certainly block the connection.
Good luck
Iftiquar
>
>Could this just be unsupported hardware, or am I missing something else.
>
>Spencer
>
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