Win2k and Mandrake networking

[picardlj]

I am a total newbie to begin with. I just purchased Mandrak 8.0 and I have had a network in my home for some time now. I am running the server off a net gear router and have 6 computers connected (running great).

I installed mandrake tonight and all seemed to go well. I tried to get the system running mandrake on the network so I can connect to the net. I have had no luck with this at all. My net card is a sis900 pci and mandrake picked it up fine. no matter what I try I cannot get it to connect to the network. I ran ipconfig on the win2k system to get the ip address from the win2k system

when I go into the network config section on Mandrake I enter
Riker for the profile
I use auto detect and it picks up my lan. It then goes into "Network and Internet Config"

It says please enter the ip of this machine. Is it asking for the ip on the Mandrake or the Win2k? I have been entering the Win2k ip.
netmask 255.255.255.0.0 this is what it shows on ipconfig on the win2k system.

It then ask for
Hostname: I entered "workgroup" here this is the network on the win2k system

Dns Server: I entered the ip from the Win2k system

Gateway: none, there is not one listed on the win2k system.

I have tried numerous ways to get it to work with no luck.

Ohhh on boot on the Mandrake, it goes through all fine with the exception of "eth0" it takes a very long time to do anything then it says failed. it also says
portmapper (failed)

I am assuming that "eth0" is ethernet card. It loads as a sis900 and shows in the config file.

If I go into hardware on the Mandrake system it shows "Silicon Intergrated Systems {SIS} SiS90010/100 Ethernet

Under other devices it shows two seperate
Silicon Intergrated Systems {SIS} Unknown.

Can someone please help me on this one. I love Linux so far.

Tim

[Christian Olsson]

Assuming the card works right I have noted somethings that should fix your problems.

> It says please enter the ip of this machine. Is it asking for the ip on the Mandrake or the Win2k? I have been entering the Win2k ip.

If it stands "ip of this machine it is of course the IP of the mandrake machine.

> netmask 255.255.255.0.0 this is what it shows on ipconfig on the win2k system.

255.255.255.0.0 is invalid. Usally it is 255.255.255.0

> It then ask for
Hostname: I entered "workgroup" here this is the network on the win2k system

The hostname is the name of the Linux box not your network enter "mandrake", "pandora" or something suiting.

> Dns Server: I entered the ip from the Win2k system

Becuase you're a newbie I don't think you run a DNS server on the W2K machine so it shouldn't be set as the DNS.

> Gateway: none, there is not one listed on the win2k system.

If the W2K machine is connected to the Internet it should be configured as the gateway. I don't use W2K so I don't know how to do this. Configure it as a gateway and set the Gateway on the Mandrake machine to the W2K machine.

[picardlj]

Thanks for the help, I know on Win to get the ip address you drop to command prompt and enter ipconfig and it shows the ip address, I searched the forum and found that you type in ifconfig. I did this from the "K" on the bottom left of the screen and went to run ccomand and it tells me Could not run ifconfig the specified command or url was not found. Any suggestions

tim