Mandrake 9.1 network will not start

[divermike0]

Hi,
Complete Linux newbie here, so any help is appreciated. I installed Mandrake 9.1 on my Celeren 1.7 pc ( dual boot with XP) , Everything seems to have installed fine exceptt the network will not connect. Boot records show that ETH0 starts ok , but nothing connects.

I have tried both static IP, with correct mask... blah , blah and DHCP. both work fine in XP. Where can I look to see what is up? I have a XT mini sys board with integrated LAN on it.

BTW I chose Mandrake to start with as all published reviews rated it the easiest on newbies like my self.

Thanks in advance,
M:confused:

[malloc]

Do you just want to connect to another box is that it?
Or do you want to connect to internet (say via ADSL?)
I'm sorry to ask this, but i didn't understood your problem very well (maybe i'm just dumb :( )

[divermike0]

Thx for the reply.

- Connecting via ALN, Ethernet, Have a router with a full network.

- This also occurs in a 9.1 installation on VMWARE 4 on a XP host ( on the same physical box). I found that 9.0 and 8.1 both connect fine, but I hahd other issues with the installations, namely setting up Webmin and Apache ( another issue).

Is there specific info that I should be looking for which can help? If so please let me know where....

THX!

[divermike0]

I meant LAN ...Ethernet on the last post ...THX again

[DMR]

Knowing the exact kind of NIC on your mobo is necessary for starters. Open a terminal window and type the following command (case-sensitive, and the first letter is a lower-case "L"):

lspci |grep Ether

When you say that nothing connects, do you mean that you can't even ping other machines on the LAN by their IP?

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by divermike0

- Connecting via ALN, Ethernet, Have a router with a full network.


Since you have a router, did you set the gateway address of Mandrake to point to the ip address of the router and the same for the dns servers in /etc/resolv.conf?

[divermike0]

Thx for the replies.
Here is where I am so far.

Result of lspci | grep Ether : 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: REaltek Semiconductor co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139c+ (rev 10)

I used linxconfig to change the parameters of the network configuration. When using static IP , gateway, mask, DNSall are correct (in the tool).

DHCP does not resolve either.

In the reolv.conf file the followig is listed:

search mydomain.org /* The domainn name is edited out for this post*/
nameserver 10.4.10.1 /*this corrrect */

#ppp temp entry


Again your help is appreciated

[divermike0]

last bit of info, I can not ping the router, but verified the IP stack is operating by pinging th loopback address.

cannot ping any other device/machine. THX!

[divermike0]

Hey,
Problem solved! As it turns out the problem is aknown one with RTL8139 and APIC. You need to boot with APIC off. I was able to do this by ESC out of LILO and botting via Linux noapic.

thank you to all who responded.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by divermike0

Problem solved! You need to boot with APIC off. I was able to do this by ESC out of LILO and botting via Linux noapic.


We've actually had a few of those lately.

Gotta try to remember that for the next one. :(