Re: escaping novell network and 21041 ethernet card
> What exactly do you mean when you say you can't get the network to
> 'start'?
/etc/init.d/network/start
returns the message
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
with no other information.
I switched to the tulip driver as James Lewis suggested, and it loads
with no messages (de4x5 gave me messages about requiring irq11), and I
still get this message from the netwrok start.
>You can't ping anything?
not even the next machine.
>Have you got the right ifconfig and routes?
I presume so. From this machine, the path is
smithttyp3:hawk>traceroute hawkins.cba.uni.edu
traceroute to hawkins.cba.uni.edu (134.161.248.148), 30 hops max, 40
byte packet
s
1 router111.iastate.edu (129.186.111.254) 0.973 ms 0.932 ms 1.295
ms
2 b06br2-vlan253.tele.iastate.edu (129.186.253.5) 3.662 ms 1.421
ms 1.401 m
s
3 b31br4-atm.tele.iastate.edu (129.186.251.31) 1.284 ms 1.361 ms
1.849 ms
4 ICN-ISU-t3.icn.state.ia.us (205.221.255.5) 3.392 ms 3.558 ms
3.237 ms
5 UNI-1-ICN-t1.icn.state.ia.us (205.221.255.186) 71.605 ms 135.451
ms 132.1
99 ms
6 starbase1.uni.edu (134.161.1.1) 152.496 ms 40.859 ms 9.195 ms
7 hawkins.cba.uni.edu (134.161.248.148) 16.941 ms 9.768 ms 11.78
ms
I find the jump straight from the university gateway to my machine
odd, but there doesn't appear to be a router at 134.161.248.148 (it
answers pings, but ignores telnet connections. Besides, it seems
possible to reach my machine without going near it). I've listed the
.1.1 address as my router.0
>Do you need dhcp?
I've assumed not. I get the same IP address every time, so I presume
that they're static. I don't know what that means on a network the
tech support people (in explaining why I'd "waived" support by the sin
of installing linux) claim is pure novell (TCP/IP is actually disabled
on the network printers).
The IPX faq seems to cover printing & directories on novell well
enough for me to deal with, but first I need access to the world :(
rick
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