Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:41:44 +1200, you wrote:yes, the ip addresses are all in that range. (i'm using the same ip address, netmask, gateway, on the notebook when running xp, and it all works fine.) yes, all the expected lights are on on the switch.
clarification: the notebook can ping localhost, the broadcast address, and it's own address, but none of the desktops.
Roger Searle wrote:
Boot to mandrake 9.2 on the notebook - no pinging, and it can't be pinged either.
Well, the network card seems ok. Is there a light on the switch showing a link.
1. Are the desktops IP addresses in the range 192.168.0.1 -> 192.168.0.254?
2. ( The usual culprit ) Is there a firewall running? Try stopping ipchains/iptables/any other stuff ( /etc/init.d/ipchains stop; /etc/init.d/iptables stop )
Steve
more on the firewalls: yes, on any machine running windows x or y, I have zonealarm pro running, and can ping to and from my mandrake desktop machine. but not from the notebook running mandrake. I can disable za from starting, and it makes no difference to the notebook - still can't ping another machine.
Robert, your comment on firewalls on mandrake: going into the control centre, security, both the desktop and notebook are set with the Standard security level as the basic option, and all the other tab options are "default". And for the DrakFirewall, is allowing "Everything (no firewall)".
/etc/init.d/ipchains stop /etc/init.d/iptables stop
these commands both return "no such file or directory". I can confirm that I do have the /etc/init.d directory, so this is referring to the files.
Roger
