It would probably help if you posted the results of ifconfig eth0 ifconfig eth1 route dmesg|grep eth
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:09:16 +1300 Hamish McBrearty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there > > After much tweaking, I've finally gotten my laptop successfully running > Mandrake 9.0. However, I've got a few gremlins left to kill. Mainly to do > with networking. > > During set up it correctly detected I have 2 network cards, an Intel Pro > 100/VE and a Toshiba Mini PCI Wifi card. The Intel card worked fine, and I > set the wireless card not to start on boot so I could have a tweak once I > got to school and within range of our wireless network. To my complete > shock, eth1 which was the onboard LAN card at home, picked up a DHCP > address at school even tho it wasn't plugged in, and happily functions on > our wireless network here. Meanwhile eth0 is permanently down. > > Now here comes something even stranger. Our DHCP server gives out IPs > starting from 172.16.1.30 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 making it a > class B subnet. However, from my laptop I am unable to access anything > that doesn't begin with 172.16.1 almost like I'm on a class C subnet. Can > anyone help me out here? I'm horribly confused, stuff that shouldn't work > does, and stuff that should work doesn't! > > ------------------------------------------------- > Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA > Network Engineer > Rangi Ruru Girls' School > 59 Hewitts Road > Christchurch > NEW ZEALAND > Ph 03 355-6099 > Fax 03 355-6027 > CELL 021 999770 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------- > > -- "All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update." - theregister.co.uk
