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I did that and no luck. Also deactivated any firewalls running. I guess it is one of the packages i installed. I reinstalled everything but with less packages and it is working perfectly now, I do wonder. 
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I did that and no luck. Also deactivated any firewalls running. I guess it is one of the packages i installed. I reinstalled everything but with less packages and it is working perfectly now, I do wonder.

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Ok currently i am trying to connect to the internet on a laptop with mandriva PWP 2007<br />
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the problem lies in that even hto the ethernet card is identified as eth0, i cannot connect to the internet.<br />
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I can connect to the router config page, but no internet pages
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Ok currently i am trying to connect to the internet on a laptop with mandriva PWP 2007

the problem lies in that even hto the ethernet card is identified as eth0, i cannot connect to the internet.

I can connect to the router config page, but no internet pages

no internet using broadband ethernet

The variety of Linux distributions creates myriad issues relating to configuration and operations when computers are networked, not the least of which is the use of various network management applications, some of which are included with specific distributions, while others are standalone applications.