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Re: Network setup question again



IS the driver for the NIC actually working?  Use ifconfig to see if
you're getting packet errors, or if the device is even configured.  0 RX
packets usually means something is bolloxed up in your configuration -
either the driver can't talk to the card because of a hardware conflict,
or it's making bas assumptions, etc.

I fought with an SMC 8013 today which had these problems.  Installing it
in a different ISA slot fixed the problems.  I don't know why :)

ps.  Between dmesg, ifconfig, and the proc filesystem you can poke
around and get a good idea of what Linux thinks is going on, and how
that meshes with what's supposed to be going on.

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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997 cheng@fourier.csl.uiuc.edu wrote:

:Hi, 
:
:Can anybody tell me what is the problem if the computer cannot
:receive packets from other computer? I set all the configuration
:file and IP address, hostname seems ok. I can 'ping'  myself,
:but not other computers, also I can not ping from other computer
:to mine. I am sure the physical connection is ok.
:
:I figured out that though all the IP setting are fine, it can
: not find the  MAC (physical ether address) for those computers.
:What else can I do here?
:
:Thanks for your help.
:
:-ctang  
:
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