Re: bride of 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu>]

|> I'm still not getting any packets out, though. I have nameservers
|> in /etc/resolv.conf. I have *no idea* where to configure a default
|> gateway. Do I need to do a 'route add'? Some documentation I've
|> seen makes reference to "/etc/init.d/network" but that file isn't
|> present on my machine.

/etc/init.d/network was a feature of `slink' and older Debian
distributions. It was replaced by the `interfaces' file and its
associated scripts (ifup and ifdown) with the advent of Debian 2.2
(`potato').

It says in the commentary in that file that you don't need to define a
value for `gateway'.  I have on my system, though. Here's how the
(relevant part of the) file looks here:

   #
   iface lo inet loopback

   # An example ethernet card setup: (broadcast and gateway are optional)
   #
    iface eth0 inet static
        address 128.114.180.20
        network 128.114.180.0
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        broadcast 128.114.180.255
        gateway 128.114.180.249

It's crucial to define the loopback interface. Do you have that?
Usually you just have to uncomment the relevant line in this file.

Jim