Re: Samba / Debian network

[Roger Searle]

If you manage to figure out what's wrong, could you please let me know 
how you resolved it?  I've got a very similar situation with the same 
chipset on my notebook, mandrake 9.2, no network connection, almost 
identical ping, ifconfig and "dmesg | 8139" outputs, network otherwise 
functions fine, and am following this thread with much interest :-)

Roger
(btw I'm not hinting for you to call round, Nick)
Nick Rout wrote:

tap0 is, as I understand it, a feature of diald (the dial on demand daemon
that i used to struggle with pre adsl).
If this machine is not going to connect to the net via its modem, you
can remove the diald package. 

I have offered to go around and help Patrick, so we may be able to fix
it.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:18:47 +1300
Patrick Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

David Kirk wrote:

   

ifconfig:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:05:1C:19:DF:F4 
        inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  
Mask:255.255.255.0
        UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
        RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
        TX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
        collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
        RX bytes:8256 (8.0 KiB)  TX bytes:23371 (22.8 KiB)
        Interrupt:10 Base address:0xfc00

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
        inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
        UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
        RX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
        TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
        collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
        RX bytes:3511 (3.4 KiB)  TX bytes:3511 (3.4 KiB)

tap0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FD:00:00:00:00 
        inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.255
        UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
        RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
        TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
        collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
        RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:1000 (1000.0 b)
        Interrupt:5
  

       

What's this tap0 thing and why does it have the same IP address as eth0?  I
would try disabling it and then try again.


     

I need specifics, people. I am very new to Linux, and this is the first 
install I have ever done. (actually it's the second on this HP Pavillion 
5150 P133 with 40 MB of ram, and no secondary CPU cache)

I work at a school that has Redhat and samba on the server, and we are 
going to put Debian on it (since Redhat is no longer supported)