Re: New install: net unreachable
Howdy:
Have you checked to make sure that the latptop PCMCIA packages are installed?
Just checking,
Brant.
Chris Brown wrote:
> Please help, this is a newbie being stupid question....
>
> I've done several slink installs that have worked fine.
>
> I'm trying to install it on my laptop now and am having problems
> with the system once its installed. Basically everything seems
> fine but I can't use the network (3c589 pcmcia ethernet). I can ping
> the machine's own address but pings anywhere else result with ping
> declaring "not allowed"...
>
> My ifconfig and route table look fine. I know the driver and network
> is okay because the entire system was nfs installed initially! This
> problem occurs when I reboot after completing the entire install
> process.
>
> I suspect that I've (unknowingly) installed some sort of ip security
> program that is not allowing network access, I see things in the boot
> log like "ip paranoia deamon"... and others that I don't understand. I
> used the custom package selection of dinstall. I've carefully done
> the process twice with the same results.
>
> As a newbie, I have no idea how to search the OS to find the
> offending software if that's the problem.
>
> Besides any suggestions on what might be causing this problem, can
> someone please let me know how I'd (efficiently) go about tracking
> down offending software in general?
>
> TIA,
> Chris
>
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