Madrake 8.2

[Samwise]

I am fairly new to linux, though I have played with a few distro's. I have a problem which I do not understand. I am trying to set up a server with either REDHAT 7.1 or MANDRAKE 8, 8.2 and everthing is fine it seems, but I cannot get the "Surecom ep-320x-r" (with RTL 8192 chipset)network card working. Linux says everything is fine, after setup and yet if I check the Mandrake control centre it says the network is "DOWN."

Why is that? What haven't I done?

The other question is I am unable to view the host "Localhost" from the file manager - even when the network was working.

What must I do to fix this?

 

[poorboy]

Well, I guess the first thing to check is that the network service is started. `service network status` should tell you. If not, start it up.

I guess it's a regular PCI NIC? run `lsmod` and see if the driver is loaded. If not, run `modprobe rtl8139` (it works with 8129 and 8139 chips). If there's any errors post them so we can sort it out. If the above is ok, check in /etc/modules.conf for a line like "alias eth0 rtl8129"

Which filemanager are you using? Nautilus or Konquerer should be ok viewing "localhost" if httpd (apache) is running. If not, there won't be anything to see.

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