Mandrake 9.2 Problem...

[Alex]

i used and loved 9.1 and just recently i formatted my HD and installed version 9.2 and i hate everything about it... the interface is somewhat different and it wont detect my LAN connection... ive tried everything from auto detect to expert mode... it finds my LAN card, says its configuring it, but it doesnt really do anything... BAH

can anyone help me ? i did exactly what i did in 9.1 but it doesnt work now

 

[slatr]

I just installed this version and have the same problem.

I am somewhat of a linux noob, but I checked settings and double checked and it won't auto detect.

If I manually specify an IP and gateway ect.. it immediatly loses this info when I try to connect even when I try to save the settings.

 

[drag]

I am not to familar with Mandrake's tools, but I know the lower level ones fairly well.

What do you get when you go:

ifconfig eth0
?

If it returns anything, however if it doesn't have a ip configured with it you can do it manually...

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
or whatever.

Then you set up the default gateway.

route add default gw 192.168.1.254
were 192.168.1.254 = your specific gateway.

If you have dhcp set up on your network you can use programs like dhclient to configure the network...
dhclient eth0


Then make sure that you have dns server in your /etc/resolv.conf
You do it by adding a line similar to:
nameserver 192.168.1.254


Hopefully that will get you going. When you reboot your going to loose your gateway and ipaddress information, though.

If you check out the mandrake forums you will probably find more specific advice on this sort of thing quicker... Probably someone has already had this issue before and figured it out before you. I don't know mandrake's specific stuff for setting up the network scripts other wise I just edit the files manually..

 

[drag]

There are good forums at mandrakeusers.org

Umm... the configuration files for eth0 device is:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0


DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
NEEDHOSTNAME=no


Will set it up to use DHCP.

Try to make it look like

(assuming your ip adress is 192.168.0.5

DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=192.168.0.5
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
ONBOOT=yes
NAME=eth0

If you have a bootproto line make it look like:
BOOTPROTO=no

then you need to restart the script for network stuff, most of the time it's
/etc/init.d/network restart
or maybe
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart

or maybe
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network-eth0


Not exactly sure of the exact setup.

 

[Alex]

thanks for the help!

i think i will just revert back to 9.1....

 

[Spleeze]

What motherboard do you have? Just to let you know, I ran into the same problem with redhat 9 and mandrake 9.2 on my nForce2 mobo's ethernet adapter... After doing some reasearch it appears to be somewhat of a driver issue... I had the same problem with the ethernet apater showing up, but not being able to enter anything. There were some fixes that seemed to work for some people, but im new to linux and they all incolved compiling new drivers and other things that left me in the dark... I hope this helps.

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: Spleeze
What motherboard do you have? Just to let you know, I ran into the same problem with redhat 9 and mandrake 9.2 on my nForce2 mobo's ethernet adapter... After doing some reasearch it appears to be somewhat of a driver issue... I had the same problem with the ethernet apater showing up, but not being able to enter anything. There were some fixes that seemed to work for some people, but im new to linux and they all incolved compiling new drivers and other things that left me in the dark... I hope this helps.

i have an nforce2 as well.... you just gave me an idea though, im gonna download the latest nvidia linux drivers and install them to see if that helps...

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: franguinho

Originally posted by: Spleeze
What motherboard do you have? Just to let you know, I ran into the same problem with redhat 9 and mandrake 9.2 on my nForce2 mobo's ethernet adapter... After doing some reasearch it appears to be somewhat of a driver issue... I had the same problem with the ethernet apater showing up, but not being able to enter anything. There were some fixes that seemed to work for some people, but im new to linux and they all incolved compiling new drivers and other things that left me in the dark... I hope this helps.

i have an nforce2 as well.... you just gave me an idea though, im gonna download the latest nvidia linux drivers and install them to see if that helps...

update: THAT WORKED!

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Spleeze
What motherboard do you have? Just to let you know, I ran into the same problem with redhat 9 and mandrake 9.2 on my nForce2 mobo's ethernet adapter... After doing some reasearch it appears to be somewhat of a driver issue... I had the same problem with the ethernet apater showing up, but not being able to enter anything. There were some fixes that seemed to work for some people, but im new to linux and they all incolved compiling new drivers and other things that left me in the dark... I hope this helps.

A :beer: for you!

 

[Spleeze]

No problem guys.. I was really frustrated when i ran into this problem... i regestered here just to post! Glad that i could be of help.... frainguinho, do you think you could tell me how you managed to install nVidia's drivers... mine don't seem to take... any help would be appreciated. I just hate the look of that spare NIC and the fact that a perfectly good NIC is sitting there unused! Thanks guys.

 

[Idoxash]

This is kinda what happen to me and my modem. The modem worked great in Mandrake 8.1 however in Mandrake 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2 it's not installed. The only way I can dial out with it is by opening up the Mandrake Control Center and useing the modem configure tools. I thought hardware abilites are to get better with each release of Linux not worse. In either way ~~~

--Idoxash

PS) Best of luck I never did get my ethernet adapter to work (it's a intergreated one that came with my Biostar mobo) VIA last I looked.

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: Spleeze
No problem guys.. I was really frustrated when i ran into this problem... i regestered here just to post! Glad that i could be of help.... frainguinho, do you think you could tell me how you managed to install nVidia's drivers... mine don't seem to take... any help would be appreciated. I just hate the look of that spare NIC and the fact that a perfectly good NIC is sitting there unused! Thanks guys.

dude go to nvidias webpage and in the download driver section just pick the one for your distro and run the rpm, thats all i did and it worked...

 

[Spleeze]

I tried to get the rpm from nvidia's website, but when i went there they only had the rpm for mandrake 9.1. That didn't work. Im gonna go look now and see if they updated thier site.. by saying that you just installed the rpm, did you do it through the console or just double click the rpm? Sorry if i ask really dumb questions... thanks man.


Checked the website and they haven't updated since last june... and no mandrake 9.2...

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: Spleeze
I tried to get the rpm from nvidia's website, but when i went there they only had the rpm for mandrake 9.1. That didn't work. Im gonna go look now and see if they updated thier site.. by saying that you just installed the rpm, did you do it through the console or just double click the rpm? Sorry if i ask really dumb questions... thanks man.


Checked the website and they haven't updated since last june... and no mandrake 9.2...

im using mandrake 9.1 by the way... i uninstalled 9.2 and just decided to go with 9.1 instead... sorry i cant find any 9.2 drivers either...

and all i did by the way was double click the rpm file to install it.