Does anyone here know a lot about Linux? Mandrake specifically?

[RSI]

Mind if I ask for a little help? I have Mandrake 8.0 and I just installed it. all I did was resize the partition and there ya go. so I have a mandrake 8/win2k dualboot.

I was actually surprised, everything installed without a hitch, no problems! Except one thing. My apparently supported DFE-538TX (Dlink) network card, doesn't seem to want to work. now I know it SHOULD , cause I checked the list before I installed Mandrake and my card is supported. so what am I doing wrong? Can anyone help me out a little? I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks.

-RSI

 

[htmlmasterdave]

*bump*

 

[rawko]

what makes you think it doesn't work? what happens when you type lsmod and ifconfig?

 

[blahblah99]

type "ifconfig" and see if it lists your network card as a device... if it does, you should get an ip. if not, try manually setting up the network by doing

"ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1"... see if that brings up the card. if it STILL does not bring up the card, you have to go into the configuration file and set up linux to use the correct drivers, irq, and address. I think that file is located in /etc/rc.d

 

[BlackOmen]

If I'm not mistaken, the dlink cards use the DECchip tulip driver, so as root type 'lsmod' and see if tulip is listed. If not, type '/sbin/modprobe tulip' and then 'ifconfig eth0 up', assuming that ip, netmask and the such have been setup properly.
If network settings are not entered correctly, I know Mandrake has a network configuration utility, although I can't tell you where to find it because I have not used Mandrake in a long time.

It could also help if you were to post the output of the 'ifconfig' and 'dmesg' commands. Feel free to PM me as well. Hope it helps.

 

[RSI]

Thanks for the help, but I got through...

Posting from Mozilla/Linux right now. I don't know what was wrong with it, but I re-installed the whole OS and I set all the network settings to automatic/dhcp, etc, and when I first boot up it hung at the ethernet card, so I thought oh great... what I didn't realize was the net had disconnected downstairs! :| After reconnecting it, it worked... That was a HUGE relief. Woohoo..

-RSI