RE: [expert] Ethernet LAN not working

[Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA]

When the dual boot machine is up under Linux Mandrake I still do not have
these two even pinging each other. The ping of each other IP addresses
simply hangs with out even timing out.

Below is some more information if someone would have mercy on me. I would be
grateful for any suggestions.

P.S. When both machine are booted into WIN98 they communicate just fine,
mapping shares, pinging each other, etc. Also I have the ppp0 interface
working now on Linux.

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Result of ifconfig eth0:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:03:31:E7:29  
          inet addr:169.254.221.10  Bcast:169.254.255.255
Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0xd000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
          RX packets:184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

Result of route:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0
eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0
lo

Content of ifcfg-eth0:
DEVICE="eth0"
BOOTPROTO="none"
IPADDR="169.254.221.10"
NETMASK="255.255.0.0"
NETWORK=169.254.0.0
BROADCAST=169.254.255.255
ONBOOT="yes"
IPXNETNUM_802_2=""
IPXPRIMARY_802_2="no"
IPXACTIVE_802_2="no"
IPXNETNUM_802_3=""
IPXPRIMARY_802_3="no"
IPXACTIVE_802_3="no"
IPXNETNUM_ETHERII=""
IPXPRIMARY_ETHERII="no"
IPXACTIVE_ETHERII="no"
IPXNETNUM_SNAP=""
IPXPRIMARY_SNAP="no"
IPXACTIVE_SNAP="no"

Result of if-up eth0:
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable

IP Addresses for computers when booted as WIN98:
169.254.126.195 WIN98 only computer
169.254.221.10  dual boot computer