[Conrad747]

i installed mandrake 10 official and first boot crashed so reinstalled and got to dos and startx etc...
got to desktop but network not working. i tried to configure and chose the driver still no go...what's going on? i have the knoppix cd and i can go in the internet right away. BTW, my ethernet hardware was detected.
also, sound is just like a feedback and it was also detected correctly.

SOYO k7vme
AMD 2400+
632 RAM
via rhine ethernet adapter (on board)

how is fedora 3 with regards to networking?

[lynch]

What have you tried to get networking set up? Did you try setting up your nic in Mandrake Control Center?
lynch

[Conrad747]

thanks for the response, lynch.
yes, i did try setting up my networking in MCC. but during boot, on verbose, eth0 failed. but on configure computer>internet hardware is there. i tried reloading the driver but it just comes back to auto and manual. i have read that mandrake got some bugs with ethernet adapters as one fellow, after upgrading from mandrake 9, lost his network connection. i hope you have some tricks in your sleeve to fix this problem or i will try fedora next.
thanks.

[lynch]

You can try this:
As root, edit the file named /etc/modprobe.preload and add the line via-rhine
Mine looks like this:

# /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
# this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY
# for old kernel use /etc/modules

via-agp

edit: Oh yeah; reboot your computer.
HTH
lynch