network down, HELP

["George Kapetanios" <gkapetanios@niesr.ac.uk>]

Hi, 

I am trying to set up thi computer at work with Debian. All works 
fine apart from the network. This is a novell environment. I have set 
up one computer in a novell environment before and it was fine. 
however here I have problems. The newtwork card is working OK as 
far as  I can tell. On boot the kernel finds it and although some 
mention of the eth1 interface is made at that stage, ifconfig states 
that eth0 is used. I can ping myself either using localhost or the IP 
address or the name of the machine. Ifconfig reports that lo and 
eth0 is up. But any attempt to ftp ping telnet  anything outside of 
the machine does not work. route reports the localnet and 
127.0.0.0 and then hangs. No gateway seems to be available as * 
is in place of the gateway. However I am using the same number 
as the other Win98 computers report in the TCP/IP installed 
gateways in network in control panel. I have not seen this problem 
before and I am at a loss for solving. Any help will be appreciated. 
Can you also reply personally as the account which receives the 
list is down at the moment ? 

Thanks 
George