im having a few issues connecting to the net, ive got my nic module
installed and running, the kernel fires up sees all the hardware and then
i ping my cable/dsl router, well alls good but i cant ping my wan gateway!
i cant get out of my home lan! but if i boot winbloze i can send this
email! any
For your description of the problem it sounds like you do not have a
defualt gateway specified in your linux system
Do a 'netstat -rn' and see if you have a line that look similar to this
'0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth0'
If you do is it pointing to
thanks guys for your response :) it was my gateway, for some reason or
another it didnt work out the first time, i removed the eth0/ before my
gateway address when the modules werent loading for some strange reason, i
was tired and not thinking clearly :-p when you guys mentioned gateway i