network problem
Hi,
I am building my first linux box on a 486, 3Com Card (3c509) on ISA,
ethernet. I set the io address to 0x300. In my first installation, the
network worked allright. I could ping, telnet, etc. I shut the system down
and switch it off. When I switched the system on the next morning, the
networking did not work anymore, I could not even see machines on the same
subnet. I typed netstat -r, and got this :
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
128.250.172.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 1 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 1 I0
default 128.250.172.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 2 eth0
The last item (default) appeared after a long pause.
I thought the network card might be faulty. I installed win95 and the
network worked.
So I reinstalled linux. I had to do it for a number of times before I got
it back to work again. When I reinstalled, I repartitioned the harddisk,
and reinstalled the driver, kernel and base system. Unfortunately, somebody
switched the machine off without shutting it down. I have not been able to
get the networking back since then. When the system boots up, I could see
the message that eth0 is loaded. The ethernet address displayed is the
correct one too. Does anybody know what is wrong?
I would appreciate any comments. Thank you.
Suryani.
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