Re: Networking probs, ifconfig?
Hi Derryck,
Your ifconfig status is definitely bad...
What type 3Com car you have? I have a 3c509 (Etherlink III) and
the driver kicks in fine.
On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Derryck Lamptey wrote:
> "loading device 'eth0'..."
>
> Is it supposed to give the ethernet card number as well?
It should report stuff like the IRQ being used, which port (like BNC), and
should also report the card's HW address...
>
> Also, When I do "ifconfig eth0", I get:
>
> ----- Begin Included Message -----
>
> eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> unspec addr:[NONE SET] Bcast:[NONE SET] Mask:[NONE SET]
> [NO FLAGS] MTU:0 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x280
definitely bad...
encap should be something like "10Mbps Ethernet"
HWaddr should be the actual HW address of the card
your IP address is missing "NONE SET"
basically you're missing everything... :(
I think either your 3com card is bad or maybe not seated right in the slot?
Here's my entry from ifconfig from a machine at work:
eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E8:C8:D9:D2
inet addr:137.79.17.41 Bcast:137.79.17.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1755624 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:70666 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
Check the card... Maybe try going into DOS and run a diagnostic on it...
Good luck!
Ricardo
>
> I just noticed Ricardo's email:
>
> ]I've just installed the base (5 disk install) plus the netbase and netstd
> ]packages. The setup is all A-OK. :) I can ping my main server fine, and
> ]vice versa. Now I tried telnetting from my other machine into the
>
> I wish I was getting this far!
>
> Help. Derryck
>
>
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