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Code:

iptables -L

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)

target    prot opt source              destination



Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)

target    prot opt source              destination



Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)

target    prot opt source              destination

What is the NIC card type?

What module does the nic card use and does it show up when you do a lsmod?

How can I find out my NIC card type? How do I find out what module it uses? It's tulip, I presume? Here's lsmod's output:

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Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted

autofs4                11540  2  (autoclean)

parport_pc            25096  1  (autoclean)

lp                      8096  0  (autoclean)

parport                34176  1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]

sg                    34636  0  (autoclean) (unused)

st                    29488  0  (autoclean) (unused)

sr_mod                16920  0  (autoclean) (unused)

sd_mod                13100  0  (autoclean) (unused)

scsi_mod              103284  4  (autoclean) [sg st sr_mod sd_mod]

ide-cd                33856  0  (autoclean)

cdrom                  31648  0  (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]

snd-seq-midi            4768  0  (autoclean) (unused)

snd-opl3-synth        12516  0  (autoclean) (unused)

snd-seq-instr          7172  0  (autoclean) [snd-opl3-synth]

snd-seq-midi-emul      6780  0  (autoclean) [snd-opl3-synth]

snd-ainstr-fm          2912  0  (autoclean) [snd-opl3-synth]

snd-seq-oss            31104  0  (unused)

snd-seq-midi-event      5640  0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss]

snd-seq                42736  2  [snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-instr snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]

snd-pcm-oss            43172  0

snd-mixer-oss          14488  0  [snd-pcm-oss]

snd-cmipci            22848  0

snd-pcm                76384  0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-cmipci]

snd-mpu401-uart        4332  0  [snd-cmipci]

snd-rawmidi            17600  0  [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart]

snd-opl3-lib            8132  0  [snd-opl3-synth snd-cmipci]

snd-timer              14408  0  [snd-seq snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib]

snd-hwdep              5344  0  [snd-opl3-lib]

snd-seq-device          5832  0  [snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi snd-opl3-lib]

snd                    43396  0  [snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-instr snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-cmipci snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-opl3-lib snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-seq-device]

soundcore              6276  0  [snd]

nfsd                  74256  8  (autoclean)

af_packet              14952  2  (autoclean)

floppy                55132  0

tulip                  44032  1  (autoclean)

nls_iso8859-15          4092  1  (autoclean)

nls_cp850              4316  1  (autoclean)

vfat                  11820  1  (autoclean)

fat                    37944  0  (autoclean) [vfat]

supermount            15296  2  (autoclean)

usb-ohci              20584  0  (unused)

usbcore                72992  1  [usb-ohci]

rtc                    8060  0  (autoclean)

ext3                  59916  5

jbd                    38972  5  [ext3]

By the way, sorry for being late. I went on holiday/vacation and didn't have net access. ;)

OK I have spent the last hour getting re-aquainted with this problem, reading every post and following all links. About 30min googling.

Now from what I can gather that card has had compatibility problems. You need to try a different module (dmfe) and see if it works. To do that you'll have to edit /etc/modules.conf. You should have a line like this in the file:
alias eth0 tulip
Leave the line in the file but put a # at the beginning of the line and add this:

#alias eth0 tulip
alias eth0 dmfe

Now save /etc/modules.conf and do this:

service network stop
rmmod tulip
lsmod #Make sure tulip is gone
modprobe dmfe
lsmod #Look for dmfe module
service network start

See what happens.

Of course you know my next suggestion if this fails is to get another NIC card right?

Hello
I'm also a total newbie at this but I have managed to get my router working with a ordinary netwok card but not with a wireless card yet. I think that you must tell the name of your gateway device. In your /etc/sysconfig/network you could try adding:

GATEWAYDEV="eth0" or whatever name your card have.

when I change my gatewaydev to wireless everything stops working for me until I change it back so maybe this could help you a bit.
/Johan

Thank you, thank you, /bin/bash! It worked! :D:D:D:D Now I just have to solve this problem. But even if it doesn't work, I'll just set up a proxy on another computer and use it to surf anyway. ;) :D:D:D