Network issues in Mandrake.

[linuxquestor at juno.com]

Hi,

    I'm new to this group. I picked up a copy of Mandrake 10 this spring at the Hostraders ham radio show from your booth. I was hoping to see you there this fall but sadly no one was in the GNHLUG spot.

    I have installed Mandrake 10 on a 200Mhz P2 with 128Mb RAM. Yes, it took nearly 40 hours of runtime to get it installed but I had no problems I couldn't figure out until I went to try to connect to the internet. I'm running Verizon DSL in Saco ME. (I've read what you thing of Verizon but I hate them less then I hate TimeWarner.) I tried to RTFM but v10 ships with v9 help on networking. I don't seem to be getting an IP address. I've tried several times using the tools in KDE. I'm of half a mind (I heard that ;-)) to try using a command line tool. I can't find much on the web to help.

   Can someone please talk me through getting my machine setup to take an IP dynamically? If need be I can put a d-link router in place in front of the DSL modem. I didn't want to do that if I didn't have too as I was hoping to cut down on possible points of failure.

    I'm sure the network card itself works but I have others if it becomes clear that I need to try another.

       Thank you for yout time. Sorry I'm so verbose.

Harry.

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