Network adapter seems ok, but doesn't work...

[Tor Arvid Lund <Tor.Arvid.Lund@ericsson.no>]

Hi

I am kind of a linux newbie, and I am having some trouble with my
network
adapter.

It is a simple PCI card with a RealTek 8139 compatible chip, my network
is a
simple home network, (192.168.0.x)
My Linux dist. is Debian 2.2.r3 with 2.4.5 kernel (I have 2.2.19-pre17
on
backup too, if it matters...)

If I got it right, it should be sufficient to invoke

'insmod rtl8139.o', and
'ifconfig <myip> <mysubnetmask> up eth0'

(or something, I cant remember exactly)

Well... I get no errors doing this, and if i run ifconfig afterwards,
the
card shows up as if it should work perfectly. But pinging someone has no

effect. What am I doing wrong?

Please, enlighten me :)

best regards
Tor Arvid Lund