The Mandrake Control Center could be buggy.
I suggest you try the old fashioned way: ifconfig.
Smitty
On Friday 30 August 2002 20:21, you wrote:
> I've just noticed a problem that I'm having when I startup my Mandrak 8.2
> box. The machine will boot, I'll head into KDE and try to access my email
> well no network connection. BUT if I go to the Mandrake Control Center and
> head to Network and Connection, it'll check the connection and say all is
> good and now when I go into my email or access the net, it works fine. Now
> I did swap out an old ISA 3Com 3c905 card with a PCI 3Com 3c509 card. Mdk
> picked it up fine and it worked but since then I've had to go into the MCC
> to get the network card running.
>
> Any ideas on what is causing this? I didn't have this problem before, so
> I'm suspecting it's something to do with the new card.
>
> Any takers?
>
> -Jason
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