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Fw: linux and win95 network
I am PINGING !! Thanks everyone for your
help and advice!
Problem was 2-fold, first off, my NIC was not set up properly
on notebook, I uninstalled and then reinstalled setting up drivers properly
there. Also, the drivers were not loaded on linux server for the
NIC. I pulled card out, found out chipset was DEC, Chuck gave me the
driver for the card (dec chip tulip ....) and then I used make menuconfig to
re-do the kernel to pull the proper driver and then success !!!!
Thankfully,
Joel Wyttenhove
.. I am now a fully certified MPT (Master Ping
Tester).
Continuing problem -
1. I am trying to network win 95 notebook to
linux server. (Suse 6.0)
2. I ping from notebook to server IP address and
I get timed out message - which I think means that this PC is working
okay.
3. I ping from server to notebook and get
"sendto: network is unreachable" message.
4. when I load linux I get
error - failed message eth0: unknown interface
5. I have new 3com
card on notebook, new netgear 4 port hub and UNKNOWN old NIC on linux
server
I am guessing that my NIC on the linux server is
either a) incompatible or b) not set up or configured properly. when I
originally installed linux it seemed to read the card okay and set up etc, but
now I cannot figure out where to go check the set up, drivers, etc or do not
know how to troubleshoot it, etc....... I have obtained new 3com ethernet card -
should I just install it ? -- how do I go about setting the new card up in
linux ??- the user manual - book is real hard for me to understand.
-- As always - any help asap is great
!!!!!!!
-- Joel Wyttenhove