Network problem

[Jay_one]

Hi everyone.

A very annoying problem. Basically mandrake detects my network card but can't find a connection.

The network card is: Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller

This is connected firstly to a Netgear 5 port ethernet switch.

the switch is connected to a Netgear RP614v2 (Broadband Router).

It wont get a connection and i don't know why. All of my windows machines are fine with this connection, and i have tried using an alternative network card to see if the network card was the problem. But the same error occurs.

When mandrake loads up it fails the ETH0 test.

I have attempted multiple times confugiring the network anyway but nothing changes.

My router acts as a dhcp server, so i would have thought the operating system would have automatically detected the settings and been issued an ip, but is hasn't.

My other slackware machine is connected fine, so i don't see what the problem is.

Can anybody help?

[marauder]

I too have a similar problem with mandrake 10.1 . my cable modem(motorola) is detected, eth0 interface is UP but cant access internet. it has detected my VIA Rhine ethernet card. tried drakconnect but to no avail. i already posted this question along with detailed outputs of ifconfig and dhclient in this forum, but no one has responded yet.

[jeremy1701]

One of thing for both of you try...

In MCC, there's an option to enable network hotplugging. It's a feature that's enabed by defualt, but really is only needed if you're using PCMCIA cards and even then it's not really nesecary. Try disabling it. I know that in the past, it's been buggy and has caused DHCP to time out.

Let me know if that works.
Jeremy

[Sulphur]

My eth0 fails at bootup, and through the mcc as well, although it shows the correct on-board lan connection, and has the proper module (sk98lin) loaded. I have tried turning off hotplugging, still no internet.
Not sure what to try next.

S

[jeremy1701]

I've seen several people mention that enabling the noapic option at bootime also solves this problem.

The big suggestion is: If it doesn't work in MCC, try doing it manually.

Jeremy

[Jay_one]

how do you enable noapic?

[jeremy1701]

There's an option in the boot section of MCC.

Jeremy

[Jay_one]

Your a star!

Selecting "Force no APIC" was the solution to my problem.

Thank you so much!