Re: network

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

Mans Joling wrote:
> Hi,
> I have installed a 3c905b network card using modconf.
> After  linux starting up I see that he found him.
> I have  edit the host file and added the 2 ip adresses and look like
> this
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 192.168.1.9 myhost
> 192.168.1.8 other
> reboot
> When I do a ping command  "ping  other" he still says network
> unreachable.
> Under Bill's stuff he works
> I use a pentium1 64 mb ram linux 2.0.36

Did you remember to say "route add -net 192.168.1.0" after you 
assigned an IP address to your network card?

If you think you have the IP address and route set up 
correctly, you should say "ifconfig -a" once more and check
what it says in the HWaddr field.

My guess is that the card's hardware address is
FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF which is not correct. In fact
FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is the Ethernet broadcast address which the 
older drivers for 3c590b detect incorrectly sometimes.

If this is your case, see
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/modules.html#ffff which 
gives you alternatives about what to do.

The first thing to try is to power off your machine before 
booting to Linux from Windows. This should take care of the 
FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF problem.

The other options are to upgrade to latest driver or disable "PnP 
OS" from BIOS if it has such setting.

> Mans Joling

// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland