Can't hit the net at all

[Hauptmann6]

Ok, I have an ABIT NF7-S2 Socket A (Socket 462) NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 ATX AMD Motherboard with onboard network. I can't seem to get anything to work to hit my dhcp server or even put all the info in to get there.

I am assuming that the network card isn't being found.

If that is the case, I grabbed the Nforce drivers, but what one do I use? It has various versions of fedora ect.

If I can get this figured out I think I can get it going.

BTW please talk slowly I'm new at this. Pictures would be helpfull. lol

[askrieger]

Re: Can't hit the net at all

Before changing the drivers, it would be worthwhile to check your configuration. I am assuming that you are using a wired ethernet network interface. If so the system will call it eth0, unless you have other network adapters in your system, as well.

What output do you get when you run the command "ifconfig -a" from a konsole? To start a konsole click on the K in the lower left corner of the screen, then on System and then on Konsole. You should see three interfaces, eth0 which is your network adapter, lo which is the loopback pseudo-interface, and sit0, which is the IPv6 over standard version 4 IP interface. You will know that your hardware is being detected if you get at least a HWaddr for eth0.

Can you also post the contents of your /etc/network/interfaces file? Especially if any of the entries DON'T say

 auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

[Hauptmann6]

Re: Can't hit the net at all

I will check. It's going to be a little hard posting this stuff swapping drives.

Thanks for the help