Hooray! Nathan sent me in the right direction and I have internet on the card.
It was the MAC address problem, powering down the wireless interface took care
of it. As it's in anther part of the building I didn't do that before.
Thanks Nathan. Couldn't have got this together without this list.
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-Original Message-
From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 10:45 AM
To: Debian-User
Subject: Re: net card nightmare
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 10:24:13AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
i've finally decided that I can't fix this network card problem.
I have been able to install two cards, either will work on the
internal network by reassigning the variables, but neither will
work on the wireless internet feed. I had the brilliant thought
last night that it was due to the wireless feed bing 10base, so
I install a 10base card this morning. I brought it up in the
internal network, worked fine, changed the parameters to those of
the internet feed, no luck. All the info in ifconfig os definately
correct, but I can't ping the router. When I connect the feed to
the NT box with the same IP info, it works fine.
Any ideas?
Yeah.
First, break your lines at 70 characters or less. Netiquette and all
that.
Second, have you power cycled the wireless internet feed box? Many
such devices recognise a MAC address and won't talk to other MAC
addresses until they forget what they learned (and generally cycling
power is a good way to do that). Perhaps the feed has learned your NT
box's MAC.
Other than that, I don't have any ideas. I've missed the beginning of
this thread so I apologise if I missed this info already.
It would be helpful to know a few things:
o IP addresses involved
o hardware involved (the feed box, the network cards)
o dmesg output after you load network card modules
etc.
HTH,
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