Thanks for the reply ifconfig gives the followng
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E8:CC:28:7D inet addr:194.81.117.61 Bcast:194.81.117.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300 route -n gives Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 194.81.117.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 1 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 194.81.117.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 1 eth0 Notice that 194.81.117.1 is the gateway I have given in the configuration dmesg gives the following network card related info. loading device 'eth0'... ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 cc 28 7d eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 3. loading device 'eth1'... It seems to me that the card is correctly detected the problem is with the gateway I guess since route (not route -n) hangs Any help will be appreciated Thanks On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Paul Miller wrote: > "G. Kapetanios" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to set up thi computer at work with Debian. All works > > fine apart from the network. This is a novell environment. I have set > > up one computer in a novell environment before and it was fine. > > however here I have problems. The newtwork card is working OK as > > far as I can tell. On boot the kernel finds it and although some > > mention of the eth1 interface is made at that stage, ifconfig states > > that eth0 is used. I can ping myself either using localhost or the IP > > Can you give us the output of dmesg dealing with your network card? > > > address or the name of the machine. Ifconfig reports that lo and > > eth0 is up. But any attempt to ftp ping telnet anything outside of > > the machine does not work. route reports the localnet and > > 127.0.0.0 and then hangs. No gateway seems to be available as * > > is in place of the gateway. However I am using the same number > > as the other Win98 computers report in the TCP/IP installed > > gateways in network in control panel. I have not seen this problem > > before and I am at a loss for solving. Any help will be appreciated. > > > What would help here would be the output of ifconfig and 'route -n'. The > -n tells route not to do DNS lookup for host names, but print IP > addresses. What is your gateway's IP, and what is your netmask? > > > Thanks > > George > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > George Kapetanios > > Churchill College > > Cambridge, CB3 0DS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > U.K. WWW: > > http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Paul Miller > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------