Mans Joling wrote: > Hi, > I have installed a 3c905b network card using modconf. > After linux starting up I see that he found him. > I have edit the host file and added the 2 ip adresses and look like > this > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 192.168.1.9 myhost > 192.168.1.8 other > reboot > When I do a ping command "ping other" he still says network > unreachable. > Under Bill's stuff he works > I use a pentium1 64 mb ram linux 2.0.36
Did you remember to say "route add -net 192.168.1.0" after you assigned an IP address to your network card? If you think you have the IP address and route set up correctly, you should say "ifconfig -a" once more and check what it says in the HWaddr field. My guess is that the card's hardware address is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF which is not correct. In fact FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is the Ethernet broadcast address which the older drivers for 3c590b detect incorrectly sometimes. If this is your case, see http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/modules.html#ffff which gives you alternatives about what to do. The first thing to try is to power off your machine before booting to Linux from Windows. This should take care of the FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF problem. The other options are to upgrade to latest driver or disable "PnP OS" from BIOS if it has such setting. > Mans Joling // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland