I'm a networking newbie.. so please be gentle.. Just installed Mandrake 9.1 and I am unable to get the network connection working. I have worked through the Mandrake Control Center but to no avail (googling indicates that the control center is junk). The nic is a built in VIA VT6103 (which I would expect that Mandrake setup the drivers correctly) Here is output of the ifconfig --------- eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:A7:82:0C UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:67 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe800 eth0:9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:A7:82:0C inet addr:169.254.251.14 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe800 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:554 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:554 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:46262 (45.1 Kb) TX bytes:46262 (45.1 Kb) --------- One thing that I see that is wierd is the eth0:9 - what does the :9 mean? .. And here is the output of the route -n command: ----------- Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo ----------- I understand that the 169.254.0.0 has something to do w/ Samba? I think something in the routing table looks wrong but I dunno? Thanks in advance! - pj _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list