I'm a networking newbie.. so please be gentle.. 

Just installed Mandrake 9.1 and I am unable to get the network connection 
working. I have worked through the Mandrake Control Center but to no avail 
(googling indicates that the control center is junk).
The nic is a built in VIA VT6103 (which I would expect that Mandrake setup 
the drivers correctly) 

Here is output of the ifconfig
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:A7:82:0C
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:67 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe800 

eth0:9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:A7:82:0C
inet addr:169.254.251.14 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe800 

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:554 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:554 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:46262 (45.1 Kb) TX bytes:46262 (45.1 Kb)
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One thing that I see that is wierd is the eth0:9 - what does the :9 mean? 

.. And here is the output of the route -n command:
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Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0   0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0   lo
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I understand that the 169.254.0.0 has something to do w/ Samba? 

I think something in the routing table looks wrong but I dunno? 

Thanks in advance!
 - pj

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