Hmm, weird... when using Mandrake 10.1 I don't have to manually configure my nic, it's picked up automagically. Can you let Mandrake auto-configure your nic?
Alternatively, can you post the output from Mandrake of ethtool eth0 for me?
Oh, and also, can you do a netstat -an?
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