[vinnyb1956]

mandrake doesn`t find my modem and wont recognise my e-mail settings that work in win xp,so i can`t get on the internet with linux any help would be much appreciated

[tsunam]

With it not recognizing the modem (I assume you mean a dialup card) it means that you can't conect to the internet at all, because you have no connection to it. Do you happen to know what kind of modem it is? That might help find a way to get mandrake to recognize the hardware.

Now, if its a ethernet card, its quite possible that the actual card or the parent stuff wasn't installed in the intial kernel building, and you will have to go into your make.config file. activate the card(parent directory of cards) and recompile the kernel, this would fix it if thats a issue.

A hardware issue that there isn't software for is a bit harder to fix ^.^

[vinnyb1956]

my modem is a zyxel adsl usb external modem, but the only drivers it offers are for ethernet cards

thanks

[tsunam]

if you can go into your kernel make.config file and look for networking in it, see what is enabled and disabled in that menu. I suspect that the problem will most likely lie there if your going thru your ethernet card.