Network problem

[Emmanuel Di Pretoro <edipreto@ulb.ac.be>]

HI,

I have a little problem with my network.
So, I try to create a network between my laptop (lspci give me 
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556 Hurricane CardBus
(rev 10) with 3c59x module) and a desktop (lspci :
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139
(rev 10) and 8139too module). 

Hereby the output of ifconfig command :

Laptop : 

eth0      Lien encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:86:40:75:14  
          inet adr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255 
Masque:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 lg file transmission:100 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interruption:11 Adresse de base:0x3480 

Desktop :

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:BF:5C:C2:44
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::50:bf5c:c244/10 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:bfff:fe5c:c244/10 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:732 (732.0 b)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0xf00

On the two network cards, the two lights are on. I don't know if it is
normal or not. Maybe the network cards are broken ? Anybody can help me
?

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Manu