net card nightmare
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? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq
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, -- Nathan Norman Eschew Obfuscation Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7 pgpYSKhttEyQv.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: net card nightmare
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. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq -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, -- Nathan Norman Eschew Obfuscation Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7