When you say "no signal coming from the Linux box", do you mean no blinking data lights or no connect light? If it's the connect light, it might be a bad or crossover cable. If it's the data light, the routing table might be misconfigured.
-Mark On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Kevin Dawson wrote: > Hi Marc, > > Thank you for the nice troubleshooting guide. As some people suggested > here, today I bought a small 10basedT hub at Fry's electronic. Its LEDs > are telling me that no signal is coming from the Linux box. On the other > hand, the laptop's side is shining green and flashing when pings come > from the laptop. On the Linux system, ifconfig writes nice things about > eth0. It even lists its MAC address. I'm tempted to take the computer to > the next Installfest. > > Thank you, > Kevin > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marc Hasbrouck > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 7:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] newbie > > Well, lets see. These are the questions I start with > when trouble shooting a LINUX/SAMBA/Windows problem. > > 1. Can you ping one system from the other? > 2. If yes skip to 5 below. > 3. Check to see if the cable is a crossover cable like > is should be. If no, get a crossover cable and go to > step 1. > 4. Are the IP addresses and net masks on Windows and > Linux set correctly. I.E. Windows 192.168.1.10, Linux > 192.168.1.11, both having a netmask of 255.255.255.0. > If no, correct. > 5. Is the workgroup for the windows systems that same > as the one set in the /etc/smb.conf file on the Linux > system? If no, correct. > 6. If yes, can the windows system see the Linux system > in Network Neighborhood? If no, we got problems that > need more specific info. If yes, is there an error > message you get when trying to open the Linux system > icon from windows on the laptop? > > What this boils down to is that I need to know where > the failure is occuring. Is it hardware?, > configuratuion? lack of documentation?, something > else? > > Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/mark/ PGP key available upon request. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
