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Oops. That was "L"spci. That tells what your PCI hardware is, as read when booting up (the true hardware chip lookups, so to speak)
From your lsmod output, I surmise you have a Network card from the DEC 410xx model family. The "tulip" module is loaded (Isame as the Linksys bastard I use - which is a clone of that chip family). LSPCI (in lower case) will tell you for sure if that's right, whcih it likely is. I also see that you enabled the firewall stuff too. If you're not online with all that, I can't help you, as I haven't enabled a software firewall since I got my router (I forget that stuff). Others here will know exactly what to do.
Aside, I see you have something IPV6 enabled. That's not really necessary, as almost no internet servers will be using that protocol soon.
If you can disable the firewall with Mandrake Control Center, it may be a good idea, to see if you're actually configured to be online. If so, you can figure out what the firewall is blocking that prevents you surfing away, so to speak.
If you wish, but you can likely remove the firewall with RPMDrake. Up to you. I'd disable the firewall to see if you could get connected and work from there
I finished reinstalling Mandrake Linux. I'm still not geting a internet connection, but I think it has something to do with my /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolv.conf~ files being empty... What exactly should be in these?
No. Leave them there. If you're connecting with DHCP, your DNS info is being sought and written to that file as you boot up. Its perfectly ok. The next reboot of your machine will probably populate /etc/resolv.conf~ with what's in /etc/resolv.conf.
That's just the way linux "backs up" config files that are modified. For example, I usually tweak my /etc/X11/XF86Config file (AKA XF86Config-4 or Xorg.conf) because when my Rage 128 Pro is recognized, the driver runs the card at 1x AGP, when it's capable of 4x. My motherboard only supports 2x, so I force it to enable at 2x instead of 1x. When finished, I still have a /etc/X11/XF86Config file (which is the modified one) and now I have /etc/X11/XF86Config~, which is the old file before the modification. If the new file is crap, you can always remane the old one and you're back where you were.
I'm not geting an internet connection still.. As soon as I try to enter an address It can't be found, While before it would look for it for 20-25 seconds before it told me it couldn't be found.
Heres my ifconfig ( On my linux ) I didn't copy my old one when internet was working, and was slow, but this one looks alot different....
On this page, it seems that the author has trouble with your type of card too. It hangs. This might be a module problem. The correct module for the card seems to be the tulip, but he's having trouble too.
1. When you open up a terminal and su in as root use this command
su -
and then type in your root password. The hyphen will give you root's environment when you log in. It will put /sbin in your path, among other things, so that when you type lspci it will find it in /sbin/lspci. If you simply type
su
and then enter your password you are logged in as root but with the environment of the person you were when you typed su.
2. To keep your /etc/resolv.conf from being overwritten add this line
PEERDNS=no
to the appropriate ifcfg file. If your ethernet card is device eth0 then the file to add that line to is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.
Oh well... I think I'm going to try mandrake linux some other time. What is the best way to reinstall windows? Do I need to reinstall the bootloader? and if so, how?
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