Renaissance Man
02-25-2001, 07:51 PM
Problem: Bought new Dell system w/ Windows ME installed (no, that's not the problem :p) Got AT&T @home cable modem. Installed in windows, works fine. Downloaded Mandrake 7.2 in 34 minutes (both CDs!) Installed it, booted it up with the exact same config as in windows and i can't even ping my gateway. Called AT&T and Dell to no avail. sat for a day and a half surfing newsgroups and tech docs to see if anyone has similar problem. saw that a LOT of people have it, very few have solved it.
Discovery: lsmod says my card is an 3c59x while I know its a 3c905c-tx ... kachheeng
Solution that worked for me: recompile kernel (since my default all the modules weren't made and put in the /lib/modules dir... if the right module is there, you don't have to do this)
(this assumes myHostname and myGateway are in /etc/hosts file)
rmmod 3c59x
insmod 3c90x
ifconfig eth0 myHostname netmask \
> 255.255.255.0
route add default gw myGateway
netstat -nr
Voila!
Hope this helps someone!
:D
Discovery: lsmod says my card is an 3c59x while I know its a 3c905c-tx ... kachheeng
Solution that worked for me: recompile kernel (since my default all the modules weren't made and put in the /lib/modules dir... if the right module is there, you don't have to do this)
(this assumes myHostname and myGateway are in /etc/hosts file)
rmmod 3c59x
insmod 3c90x
ifconfig eth0 myHostname netmask \
> 255.255.255.0
route add default gw myGateway
netstat -nr
Voila!
Hope this helps someone!
:D