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| Thread ID: 32778 | 2003-04-28 01:46:00 | Linux RH 9.0 / Mandrake 9.1 NIC troubles | chrispy (3686) | Press F1 |
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| 139476 | 2003-04-28 06:36:00 | Yeah, I've tried that - when it's coming up, eth0 picks the same ip address again. I also re-enabled the onboard Realtek as eth1, and it did the same thing but with a similar IP address in the same 169. range. I did a grep as you requested and it didn't find anything. I checked linuxconf and didn't find anything either. This machine is required, so I unfortunately am forced to revert to Mandrake 9.0 and purchase a Geforce 4 video card. I did a search and it appears XFree 4.2 will support this video card. I wouldn't have to buy a new video card if it supported my SIS 651 onboard video, but that's why I went to Mandrake 9.1 Oh well.... |
chrispy (3686) | ||
| 139477 | 2003-04-29 04:38:00 | Try forcing an IP address in the "ipconfig eth0 up" command ... that should work. Thinking about it, it will definitely be in a lower level directory of /etc ... "find /etc -name network" might get you to the one. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 139478 | 2003-04-30 03:42:00 | Solved! I took the machine home and reverted to Mandrake 9.0, and that didn't work either. That got me thinking that it didn't work the first time under Mandrake 8.2, so I installed Redhat 9.0 on it, and voila! The bugger works now! It even detects my video card properly so I've got a decent refresh rate. I don't know why, but Mandrake just doesn't like this machine. I would have replied yesterday but I was busy catching up on the work I couldn't do while this machine was down :-) Rgds Chris |
chrispy (3686) | ||
| 139479 | 2003-04-30 04:05:00 | I like Red Hat. Mandrake seem to be proud of being at the bleeding edge. RH have the attitude that it's better to have it working than the latest. :D But network stuff is nice when it works. When it doesn't ... |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 139480 | 2003-04-30 05:03:00 | Yes. I've been bitten by their bleeding edge stuff before. The version of reiserfsck that came with mdk8.0 was an ALPHA version. And the kernel that ships with mdk9.1 is prerelease (IIRC its not even a release candidate), not that its given me any problems yet. Did you enable ACPI when you installed mdk9.1? I found it stopped some of my recently supported hardware from working. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 139481 | 2003-05-01 13:10:00 | I have had similar problems with Mandrake 7.1 & 8.2 First I had an AMD K7 3D cpu, then a Celleron 1.7, still no joy. Mandrake toldme that the AMD K7 was not suitable, but it is still the same. |
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