Thanks for the help everybody. The driver for the card is installed in the kernel and appears to successfully detect the card:
"eth0: AT1700 found at 0x320, IRQ 5, address 0000f4aacbbd auto-sense interface. at1700.c:v1.15 4/7/98 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])" /proc/interrupts and ioports are as follows; "FUDO2:/home/paul# cat /proc/interrupts 0: 25782398 timer 1: 25004 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 5: 1 eth0 6: 1758994 + serial 10: 4640 sound blaster 12: 1165915 PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 math error 14: 160883 + ide0 FUDO2:/home/paul# cat /proc/ioports 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : npu 0100-0107 : serial(set) 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0220-022f : sound blaster 02f8-02ff : serial(set) 0320-033f : eth0 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f0-03f5 : floppy 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR 03f8-03ff : serial(set) ffa0-ffa7 : IDE DMA ffa8-ffaf : IDE DMA " I can successfully ping myself (FUDO2,localhost and 10.0.0.1) and also my isp`s nameserver. ifconfig and netstat -r are as follows; FUDO2:/home/paul# ifconfig 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:11733 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11733 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:F4:AA:CB:BD inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x320 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:193.130.240.130 P-t-P:158.43.122.46 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:552 Metric:1 RX packets:306 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:263 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Memory:1ad4038-1ad449c FUDO2:/home/paul# netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface nsrv-cam1.cam.d * 255.255.255.255 UH 552 0 0 ppp0 localnet * 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo 10.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0 default nsrv-cam1.cam.d 0.0.0.0 UG 552 0 0 ppp0 However I still can`t ping out to the win95 box which I believe is correctly configured as 10.0.0.2 (it can certainly ping itself at that address) For some while now I`ve been unable to use my floppy drive because of i/o errors, might this have some bearing on the irq situation? It`s possible that it may have gone wrong at the same time as the at1700 driver was installed. -- Paul Walton * Powered by * Cambridge * Debian GNU Linux * U.K. * http://www.debian.org *