Well, until someone else chips in:
Try having each machine ping itself using its assigned IP address (like
192.168.1.1 or whatever).
All of your cables plugged in properly?
Do you have a crossover RJ-45 cable by any chance that you could use to
connect the two machines, replacing the hub temporarily?
Have you ever had the network working? Any other machines?
Again, post your results, maybe someone else can help.
PS: Do you have LEDs on the NIC cards? Do they indicate you have a
connection when the cables are plugged in through the hub (or the
crossover cable)?
Randy Kramer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I tried that and each machine can ping itseld and gets responses, but can't
> ping the other machine. In other words, win95 can ping itself but not linux and
> linux can ping itself but not win95.
>
> Randy Kramer wrote:
>
> > Also, have each machine try pinging itself, in other words:
> >
> > ping 127.0.0.1
> > ping localhost
> >
> > If those don't work, there is something wrong with the networking
> > software on each machine. (I can't help you with the next step, but
> > someone can -- post your results.)
> >
> > Randy Kramer
> >
> > Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> > >
> > > At 09:24 AM 4/3/2001 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > >i am tryint o reconnect my home LAN but I can't getmy machines to ping
> > > >each
> > > >other. Everything is fine. IP configuration is right, HUB is working,
> > > >cables
> > > >are new and connected. Don;t know what the problem may be?
> > >
> > > what does 'route -n' show? i've had problems in the past with changing IP
> > > addresses via linuxconf and having the ifconfig info change, but not the
> > > routing table.
