The problem was (is) with my motherboard. It doesn't like EISA cards. I put in a 3Com Etherlink II (8 bit card) and now it works fine. Oh well. $17.50 from Computer Geeks, so I guess I can't complain. Cheers though! Everyone sending the 'check your cables even though you've probably already done that' tips saved me. What tipped me off to try the 8 bit card was watching the leds on my 16 bit WD8013. I had tested the hub & cable with a laptop, so I knew it wasn't a crossover cable problem, and the WD8013 was a known working card that had already replaced a 3c509. Since I could see the Rx led light up when I pinged the Linux box I figured that the card was receiving the signal but that it wasn't passing it on for some reason. I tried all four ISA slots and was very careful about making sure the card was seated correctly. Finally I noted that my 8 bit modem worked fine, so put in an 8 bit ethernet card (luckily I had one handy). Sudden connectivity! Re the 0.0.0.0 in the gateway column - I had put that there in an attempt to force all of the traffic for 192.168.0.x over eth0 instead of ppp0. With the new card the net works fine with the gateway left at 192.168.0.1. (I am not a Linux guru, but I think that if 0.0.0.0 was required in that field pppd would not put a dynamic ip address there, and that ifconfig would not make it so easy to put a number there with the gw switch. Man ifconfig doesn't mention requiring 0.0.0.0 there at all.) Cheers, James _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
