Following your suggestion I pinged my gateway by IP rsther than name. The thing hang after printing a line. So maybe what you say about the card not working correctly is right.
I was wondering: Win98 has no problem with recognizing and using the card. Why should Linux ? As this is not my computer tha card is there to stay. Additonally I would like to use the box as a server for math application to be accessed through telnet only . So I need to be sure that the card is the problem and if so remove Deibian Do you know any methods that can tell me fpor certain that the card is to blame ? Thanks again for your help George On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Paul Miller wrote: > "G. Kapetanios" wrote: > > > > 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 > > > This info looks fine to me. > > > > 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'... > > > Now why does it say loading device eth1? I have no clue. Hmmm... > > > It seems to me that the card is correctly detected the problem is with the > > gateway I guess since route (not route -n) hangs > > > Just for grins try pinging 194.81.117.1. Do not use the host name. Use > the IP address. Does it still give you problems? > > If it does not, you should take a look at /etc/resolve.conf and make > sure you have your DNS server listed there. The reason why route hangs > is because your machine cannot find a host name for the IP address of > your gateway. > > If you cannot ping an IP address, the network card might not be workign > right. It could be a bad network cable or wall jack. > > Hope this helps > > -- > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
