Well we need to refer to the Linux Ethernet HOWTO and the Allied 1500 is
indeed a supported card based on the old AMD LANCE Chip (Not to be confused
with the newer PCnet-ISA 79C760) The driver needs to have implemented low
memory bounce-buffers to make all communication come from the bottom 16M of
memory in DMAs, but is otherwise pretty straightforward.
I think what Axalon wrote about routing should be checked first. Also, what
sort of gateway software is running? Is there some crossover possible there?
I have never used anything but transproxy, ipchains, and ipfwadm, so I have no
knowledge of what a wingate or bay networks driver might do....
Civileme
J Mann wrote:
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> > From: FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: newbie list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [newbie] No network connection
> > Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 1:54 PM
> >
> >
> > I've got Linux installed on a 5x86 133 with 12MB of RAM, and a 400MB hard
> > disk with an Allied Telesis 1500T ethernet card. I have a network
> > set up with the linux machine, and two
> > windows machines. The network card in the Linux box is recognized by the
> > OS, and when I try to ping the other machines, the transmit light
> flashes,
> > but it doesn't get any responses from either windows machine. Likewise,
> > when I ping from the windows machines, they can hear each other fine, but
> > they don't get a response from the Linux machine. Can anyone help?
>
> >From personal experience, it sounds like your ethernet card isn't support
> with Linux. Even though it detects and works, I had to same problem with an
> NE2000 card (which is way common by the way). If I ran TCPDUMP and pinged
> from a windows or another linux machine I could see it coming in just fine.
> I changed cables and nothing, then I swapped the card for another ethernet
> card (a 3com 3c509) and it finally worked.
>
> Jeremy
