[ale] Mandrake can't network

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 12 December 2002 03:02 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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?

Yup, sees both nics that I tried.  Link light comes on, too.  It behaves 
differently depending on whether the cable is attached or not, so some 
level of negotiating is happening.  There are no errors I could see other 
than the lake of dhcp success.  The kernel seems quite happy with the nic, 
except for never receiving a darn thing on it.

Michael
>
> 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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