[clue-tech] Mandrake 10.1 DSL Access Problem

[Vern B. Southern]

And again after much thought, Vern B. Southern ingratiated y'all with:

Thank you John Hamilton for your reply.

You Nailed It...

The computer has a FIC VA-503+ mother board and a AMD K6-2 500MHz processor 
(circa 1998).

I guess it's time to get out the tire iron, pry open my wallet and upgrade to 
a new system.

Thanks John, and thanks to y'all for your help and thoughts...

On Thursday 03 March 2005 10:52 am, John Hamilton wrote:
> What you've described is certainly an interesting problem. I have three
> machines running Mandrake 10.1 Official (HP Desktop, Toshiba laptop, and
> an AMD64 custom machine) all connecting to the internet through a Qwest
> DSL Actiontec connection. I run my own firewall using an old PC with
> iptables but other than that, my setup seems to be the same as yours.
> I've not had any trouble with these three machines but I did have
> trouble with another machine that I built. I used discounted motherboard
> and processor (AMD something or other) that I picked up off of the
> discount table at MicroCenter. The problem I ran into with that machine
> was that when I installed Mandrake 10.1, it wouldn't recognize the
> network card that was built into the motherboard. When I added a network
> card that I had used on other 10.1 machines and disabled the internal
> one, it still wouldn't recognize it. If I booted the machine with
> Knoppix or SimplyMEPIS, it worked just fine. I finally just installed
> MEPIS on the hard drive and gave the machine to my mother-in-law. She
> hasn't had a bit of trouble with it so I really don't have a clue what
> the problem was. Anyhow, I really like Mandrake 10.1 but my experience
> is that it doesn't always work on some hardware configurations. I wish I
> could offer a solution for you but that's all I have.
>
> John Hamilton
>

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Vern B. Southern
Denver, Colorado
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