[techtalk] Linux Mandrake 7.0

[Puff Devil]

Greetings Everyone,
     I have reinstalled and reinstalled Mandrake 7.0. 
I cannot get the lovely OS to realize that it is on
the internet.  I sign on to my Earthlink account and
launch Netscape and Netscape says, "umm you aren't on
the internet...and instantly returns a DNS server
error."  Also I have reinstalled to get my CD-ROM
drive to function correctly but absolutly no success. 
I dbl-click on the CD-ROM drive on the desktop even as
root and it says it has been dismissed (oh and yes
there was a CD in the drive).  The cd-rom is a HP
CD-Writer 7500, Linux detects is great in Lothar, but
when I try to read the cd, it says umm no.  I tryed
changing the premissions for the drive and everything
that I could think of.  Oh and is there any good ATAPI
CD-Writer software for Linux?  There is some that came
on the Extras CD of Mandrake, but I can't get the
CD-ROM to work.

Thanks,
   Richie

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