problem with NIC

[Marcelo Chiapparini <chiappa@uerj.br>]

Hi!

I've just installed a minimal potato sytem (no GUI) in order to 
continue installing the rest of the stuff I need via the web.
The machine uses a 3c905c tx NIC. Following the advices from this 
list I intalled the 3c59x driver for it. I disabled too the 
plug and play option in the BIOS (another suggestion from this list, 
which solved and IRQ conflict with the NIC). 
The problem is that I can't reach anything in my LAN. Here are the 
outputs from the ifconfig and route commands:

nostromo:/home/chiappa# ifconfig eth0
eth0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:03:DD:17:4C
        inet addr:152.92.133.47  Bcast:152.92.133.63  Mask:255.255.255.192
        UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500  Metric:1
        RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
        TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
        collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
        Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb400
        

nostromo:/home/chiappa# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination   Gateway   Genmask         Flags   Metric   Ref   Use   Iface
localnet         *      255.255.255.192 U       0        0       0   eth0


it seems that the gateway is not assigned yet, but I gave the gw IP during 
the installation. If I use route for configuring it (thanks David!) I get:

nostromo:/home/chiappa# route add default gw 152.92.133.1
SIOCADDRT: File exists
      
and nothing is done.

What could be wrong with the NIC?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Regards,

Marcelo
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Marcelo Chiapparini
DFT-IF/UERJ
chiappa@uerj.br