I'm pretty sure my network card is working right, here's what ifconfig -a returns :

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E8:97:09:0A
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd400


lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0


I'm trying to connect to my @home cable service. In windows, all I need to specify is my hostname given to me by my isp (cx.....-a) and set dchp to on in the bindings for my card. I'm trying to do the equivalent here in netconf.

This links to a screen grab of my Netconf screen:

http://www.gnd-0.com/Netconf.gif

When I accept these changes I get a dialog prompting me if I want to restart networking on eth0. When I say yes, the command times out.

I'm dual booting Windows 2000 and Mandrake. My internet connection works fine in windows.

Can someone please help me fix this ??



[Edited by aidano on 05-05-2001 at 06:46 PM]

if you're eth0 is set up properly try doing

/sbin/dhcpcd -h "number @Home gave you"

for me it'd be

/sbin/dhcpcd -h cr71431-a

Thanks! that worked instantly. Now why couldn't I find that info myself......

I had the same query, now resolved, thanks!

To let other Mandrake 8.0 users know, the installation process didn't automatically install the DHCP client for me. So if you get a "command not found" when trying to do the dhcpcp , simply put CD 1 into your machine and as root do:

rpm -i dhcp-2.0pl5-6mdk.i586.rpm
rpm -i dhcp-client-2.0pl5-6mdk.i586.rp

Then it works!