On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 andy at theasis.com wrote: > > I have just installed Caldera on an old p100 machine. I have a D-Link > > DE-220P and am using the ne and 8390 modules. I have assigned it the > > address of 192.168.0.4 and am able to ping itself. I have a hosts file > > listing the other computers on the network as well as its self. I have > > also added it to the hosts file of the other Linux machine. route has an > > entry for 192.168.0.0 as well as 127.0.0.0. > > What netmask? > Give the output of "ifconfig eth0" here: inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 MTU: 1500 Interrupt: 3 Bass Address 0x300 Interrupt 3 is used by the serial/modem ports. There might be a conflict between either the modem or the serial port with the mouse attached (the mouse is not working (yet)). How would I change that. I have used the setup software that came with the card. The software says that it is going to use IO addr of 0x300 and irq of 11. After I tried to do a ping ifconfig report errors on the TX side. > > Given the IP# of another host on the network, presumably attached to the > same hub... Let's use, for example, > 192.168.0.1 > > >From 192.168.0.4, you should be able to > ping -n 192.168.0.1 > > ...Does that work? no it spits out one line "PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1):56 data bytes" then sits there until I do the ^c thing. > > > Give your routing table here (output of "route -n": > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 u lo > ...In fact, the routing table shouldn't matter at this level, if your > netmask is reasonable. > > > Anyone have an idea what I am overlooking? > > /etc/hosts shouldn't be relevant unless it's wrong. > If DNS is somehow messing up things (attempts to find names, even if > you're using numbers), the -n switch should take care of it. no DNS on the local network. > > Hope this helps at least reveal more information. > Andy > > > TIA > > John Miller > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >