Hi,
I tried to install Mageia using the Network Install media.
During the installation wizard, I selected dhcp as an option, and that failed.
I tried to find out why, but logging didn't help, and on top of that: in the console there was no ip utility available to view the status of the network interface.
After selecting fixed addressing everything worked.
I don't know why it failed, but if i have at least the ip command available, i have something to work on ...