Network issues in Mandrake.

[James]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:24:18PM +0000, linuxquestor at juno.com wrote:
> 
> 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.

I'd assume you are using PPPoE with VZN. Have you tried to manually acquire an
IP address from cmd line using pppoe instead of rebooting ?

HTH,
-J


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