RE: [expert] Ethernet LAN not working

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

1. Both WIN98 and Linux Mandrake computers hang when trying to command line
ping the other.

2. My /etc/modules.conf contains only alias eth0 3c59x for this adapter; no
io/irq info too.

3. Yes I did mean: ifup ifcfg-eth0

4. Mask for ALL computers on all OSs is 255.255.0.0

Thanks for your time and interest.

Jon H

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre Fortin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 8:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Ethernet LAN not working


"Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA" wrote:
> 
> 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.

Surely, you're not saying that the W98only box is also hanging?  :>

[]
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1

Only one packet and a carrier drop...  

Looked at this info and the only difference from my setup is:

>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0xd000

My interrupt is 5.  My /etc/modules.conf contains only: 
  alias eth0 3c59x
for this adapter; no io/irq info...

[]
> Result of if-up eth0:
> SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable

Did you mean:  ifup ifcfg-eth0 ?

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

As long as both use netmask 255.255.0.0 (aka /16; or shorter mask), this
should
work once the base problem is solved.

Pierre