Where in the world is the Internet?????

[cazzovoi]

Hi,

I recently installed Mandrake 10 (official). The installation went smooth, except my Internet connection. Within the harddrake setting, it says an ethernet card had been detected (DEC). However, when I try to access the web, or check any email, it won't connect. Is there a setting within the different clients that I need to add/change? I have a cable connection.

Thank you very much for any help,
John Basile[/quote][/list]

[lordnothing]

open a console and do the following (if you have root access to this box.)

su -
ifconfig

paste the result of the second command here so we can see if the network card was brought up or not.

[lakerdonald]

su -
ifconfig eth0 up

do you use dhcp? if so, then:

dhclient

[z28com]

For starters, have you checked your network setting file?

Look at /etc/sysconfig/network

Make a backup of the 'network' file before making any changes to it.
Something like: cp network network.backup

Is your default gateway set up to point to your DSL/Cable router if you have one?

If not, then be sure you have these two lines:

GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
route add default gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of your router.

If you type in: netstat -rn

You should see the gateway listed.

You also need to make sure you have the DNS's added as well.

[DCLXVI]

dude, its easy... same thing happened to me. All u have to do is make a new connection under drakconf>Network>New Connection... it auto detects everything... then use firefox cuz konqeuror sux nutz