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i am connected to a router and i have mandrake 9.1 installed on my pc along with windows XP, i can't connect to the internet . the funny thing is, ...
  1. 01-23-2005 #1
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    LAN Trouble

    i am connected to a router and i have mandrake 9.1 installed on my pc along with windows XP, i can't connect to the internet . the funny thing is, im takin a linux course in college and mandrake 9.1 connects to the colleges routers fine snd they never had a problem. its detecting my NIC and i put all the pppoe settings in, but i thought u wouldn't have to cuz ya dont have to in windows. this is really confusing me
    can somebody plz help me
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  2. 01-23-2005 #2
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    What kind of NIC is it, what does
    Code:
    ifconfig -a
    output, and how are you obtaining an IP address?
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  3. 01-25-2005 #3
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    i have a via pci 10/100 mb fast ethernet adapter
    my connection is commin trought a router
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    what is the output of
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    eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:1B:2B:93:20
    inet addr:192.168.2.100 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:0 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
    RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
    Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00

    lo Link encap:Local Loopback
    inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
    UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
    RX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
    RX bytes:2656 (2.5 Kb) TX bytes:2656 (2.5 Kb)



    This shows up after i type ifconfig -a
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    Well from the looks of that you're set. try:
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    ping google.com
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    i tried a ping already it says that there is 100% packet loss whwn i try to connect through the mandrake control centre it tells me connection failed please view your confirguration.
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