[ale] Mandrake can't network

[Geoffrey]

I've got three machines here with mdk 9.0 and all work fine, especially 
networking, since two of them are headless, keyboard/mouse challenged.

Does it see your nic?  What's showing up at boot?

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> A very strange thing happened to me yesterday.  I decided the time was ripe 
> to upgrade my office desktop, and since I am a big Mandrake fan I decided 
> to install Mandrake 9.0.  The installation went as expected with no 
> problems until it tried to connect to the network.  It failed.
> 
> Since the computer had networked only an hour earlier I knew it wasn't the 
> built in ehternet (rt8139 chipset).  I tried a PCI intell etherpro100 
> card, too, and that failed the same way.
> 
> Finally, I gave up and installed RedHat 8 which means I spend all morning 
> getting rid of bluecurve.  I'd really rather have mandrake, but why can't 
> it network?  It works fine at hoem, and I find it hard to beleive that 
> they would ship a CD (downloaded) with completely broken networking.
> 
> Anyone else ever see this?
> 
> Michael
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