I recently (two nights ago) installed RH 6.0 but because I didn't do
a network install (I used a CD), my ethernet card was not picked up.

I have an IBM Thinkpad 760, so my card is therefore a PCMCIA card.
I installed the pcmcia drivers (David Hind's) which support my card,
and set everything up.  I then connected to cunix and everything
seemed great, until...I realized I could not type anything.  It was
as if the screen froze at cunix (or any outside) login.  All I could
do was ctrl-] to break the connection.  I then tried ftp, except
that after inputting userid and password, it simply hung.

To test what might be the problem, I tried logging in to my own system,
where both telnet in and ftp in worked fine.  And I had a friend try
to log in to my system, who also encountered problems like I had 
logging in elsewhere.  I looked over my settings, and everything
matches this same friend who has his setup working (albeit on a
desktop).  Hostname, search domains, gateway, gateway device (eth0),
everything matched up (except for machine differences like actual
hostname -- every entry was similar), and the only thing that somehow
seems awry is the broadcast ip (shown from ifconfig and the network
control panel) of 128.59.233.255.

I read through the HOWTO, there isn't any mention of a problem like this.
While booting up, I do get an error when eth0 initialization is delayed,
but that is because cardmgr services have not started.  When they do,
the card is brought up, id'd properly (so listed in /var/log/messages) and
everything seems fine.

Yet it has this weird problem connecting outside.  I can, however, ping anyone
with no problem whatsoever.

Does anyone have *any* clue what it might be?  Besides a misconfigured card, I
can't imagine what might be wrong -- I checked with my Windows info on my
ethernet card (an IBM Credit Card Ethernet Adapter - CCAE), which does show
different irq's and i/o, but if that were a problem, I should think the card
would not work at all.  And this isn't a specific driver for the card, just
the general one that supports many.

I have used RH 5.1 before, had no network problems, and have done net installs
before so I know RH has no problem with my card per se.

Hopefully one of y'all has a clue since I'm stumped...

Thanks,
Joel

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