I have 3 pc's connected to cable via an xp ICS host. I have just finished putting mandrake 9.2rc2 on my pc, now dual boot with xp pro. I cannot connect to the internet with mandrake now. This is only the second time I have tried using linux, so I don't really know what I'm doing. Here is my ICS host ip info:

local net...
dhcp enabled ... no
ip address ..... 192.168.0.1
subnet ......... 255.255.255.0
default gateway.

for my client while in xp:
dhcp enabled.... yes
autoconfiguration enabled ... yes
ip address..... 192.168.0.100
subnet mask....255.255.255.0
default gateway...192.168.0.1
dhcp server ....192.168.0.1
dns servers....192.168.0.1

I've tried entering 192.168.0.1 into the drakconnect for my gateway, and it won't connect. Also, i've noticed that whenever i restart md, even after telling it to save my changes in drakconnect, when i open it again i get 127.0.0.1 in my DNS server box. I've been reading threads now for about 2 hours with similar problems, and one solution was change a line in the /etc/resolve.conf file, but I don't believe this file exists on my computer. I did find a file, etc/samba/lmhosts that says 127.0.0.1 localhost. Any help is appreciated, however I have no experience with linux, I don't even know how to get to a comman line, so please explain in a manner simple enough for my cat to assist me.

Do you even get an IP from the ICS gateway when you switch to mandrake ?
If you start mandrake and type ifconfig does it come up with an ip for the networkcard and the localhost (wich is 127.0.0.1) ?

What nic are you using and is it recognized by mandrake ?

GJB

eth0 link encap: ethernet hwaddr 00:01:02:75:9A:B6
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metr

ic:1
RX packets:0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 fra
me:0
TX packets:0 errors: 0 dropped:0 overruns: 0 car
rier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:810 (810.0b) TX bytes:0 (0.0b)
interrupt: 19 Base address: 0xec00

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: 323 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 f
rame:0

TX packets:323 errors: 0 dropped:0 overruns:0 c
arrier:0
collisions: 0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:20750 (20.2 KB) TX bytes:20750 (20.2
Kb)

using 3com, in hardrake it is listed as 3c095c-TX module: 3c59x

What does your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 look like ?

mine contains this :

DEVICE="eth0"
ONBOOT="yes"
IPADDR=""
NETMASK=""
BOOTPROTO="dhcp"

This is for a DHCP setup, what you could also try is a static ip which goes something like this :

DEVICE="eth0"
BOOTPROTO="none"
IPADDR="192.168.0.105"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
ONBOOT="yes"

And then in /etc/sysconfig/network

GATEWAYDEV=
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=yes
HOSTNAME="yourhost.yourdomain"
GATEWAY="192.168.0.1"

and your /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 192.168.0.1

This should do the trick, I don't have much experience with mandrake, but i'm downloading at the moment to see how it's different compared to RedHat because i do have a lot of experience with that.

GJB