Hello,

I'm an experienced programmer new to Linux, and set up an old box
(266MHz, 64M RAM) with an old Mandrake 8.0 CD I had lying around. The
setup went really well, but at first it could not see my home network
(Liksys router) at all. I swapped out the NIC card and removed some
other peripherals that might have caused IRQ conflicts, and the box can
now see the router, but can't see the internet at large. Also, the
XWindow internet config program doesn't come up, so I'm assuming I have
to use ifconfig - where is the config file for it, and should I assume
it's called ifconfig.conf or is there another name for it?

AFAIK, I'm using a fixed IP address of 192.168.1.105 (or whatever the
prefix is: I'm not at the machine right now).

Any help gladly appreciated.

Thanks

Jim Stanley