[expert] ip addressing on lan

[Brett W Tippet]

Hey guys .. got a slightly weird one.   I've been running Mandrake 9.0 for ages .. I've just put another pc on my network and have install 9.1 ... the install has seemed to install all the required packages and has found the correct hardware (including the NIC) ..   I have the pc on a 192.168.0.0 network .. I've given it 192.168.0.200 and the gateway is 192.168.0.1   When I apply this IP using the wizard on install it all takes and seems to be there .. If I try and ping anything on the LAN I get destination unreachable, and if I ping the unit from another machine on the LAN it times out. But from the 9.1 machine, I can ping 192.168.0.200 (it's NIC ip) .. the routing table sees the ip, but wont look at the gateway or LAN. .   ANY help would be much appreciated.   Thanks guys.   Brett