Bud wrote:
> out. Tried again, ditto. Tried with Mozilla, ditto. Tried pinging my ISP
> fine, others, no go. So, I'm here to send a fax on this old distro 9.1 of

As a newbie: maybe it's a DNS problem?

in /etc/resolv.conf add this:
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx < ip of your... nameserver ask you ISP or check it with mandrake (somehow..)

I think, if you have DHCP configured, then it's useless to edit the above file, but I don't believe it make any harm :-)