Don't worry,
I assambled all 3 pc's together myself ;+)

it's the linux knowledge that isn't in the head ...
But if I can ping from linux to the windoze,
that seems that the network card is doing fine, not ?

Anyway, you kind of was reading my thoughts,
I'm so desperate now I'm throwing in another this in this linux machine
and will install quick & dirty a windoze on it, just to prove to myself that
the hardware configuration is working ok with it.

This way I can be 100% sure that linux is the problem.
If all goes right, it will take me 45 min work to test it ...

Things become a bit strange and
on the other hand a bit more clear.

So on this "supposed to be linux" pc I installed win xp
and there seemed to be a problem with the second network card.

This device cannot start. (Code 10)

No problem,
ripping out a network card of one of the windoze machines,
plug it in (now I'm 100% sure I got 2 working network cards, right ?)

this second network card has the same error:

This device cannot start. (Code 10)

But I'm sure the card works ...
what's going on here ?

What's more,
I'm not getting on internet anymore with linux on this pc,
and the network card I'm assinging to internet is the same one
like I use now for half a year, and use to access internet on the
temporary windoze xp to write this ....

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP

I have done a google search and code 10 means there is a driver issue in Windows, or a IRQ conflict on your machine. It's probably the latter as your machine doesn't work with linux or windows.

have you tried a different pci slot, some nics have problems w/the bus they are on?

even better my friend ...
Your idea is good ofcourse, but it didn't work anyway.

I stripped down the linux pc and a windoze pc,
changed all needed from one mainboard to the other,
and installed.
On internet and able to ping now in both directions ...

Hardware hey :+)

Good,
I learned to keep away from network wizards ...
the hard way :+)

what r those commands to ipmasquading again ?

found these commands on this forum:

Edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf and on the line net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0, change 0 to 1.

code:
# Controls IP packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

In order for the changes to take effect,
at the command line, type: service network restart

Now you need to setup IP forwarding and Masquerading.
First, you need to flush the old rules.
So open a console window and at the command line, type:

iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD DROP

iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

NOTE: In this case, eth0 connects to the internet and eth1 connects to the local network.
You may need to switch eth0 and eth1.
The ifconfig command will give you more information.

To save iptables modifications, at the command line, type: service iptables save.
IPtable rules are located in the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file.

Don't forget to start iptables: service iptables start

I did so, to the letter,
no success ...

I followed the instructions on
http://www.dalantech.com/boards/show...--fpart-1.html

no result ...
not sure now what to do exactly on the windoze side.
Anybody awake ?

to avoid the same old questions again,
here r the answers straight away ...
please tell me what to do on windoze and linux

[root@d577c3c9 pelgrim]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:EA:6D:1C
inet addr:213.119.195.201 Bcast:213.119.195.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:baff:feea:6d1c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:392 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:443 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:47 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:170606 (166.6 Kb) TX bytes:55472 (54.1 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1400

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5D:84:250
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::205:5dff:fe84:25d0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1920 (1.8 Kb) TX bytes:3532 (3.4 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:140 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:140 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10398 (10.1 Kb) TX bytes:10398 (10.1 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 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:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

root@d577c3c9 pelgrim]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
213.119.195.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 213.119.195.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

Destination netmask gateway interface metric
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.2 20
192.168.0.2 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 30
192.168.0.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.2 30
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.2 30
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.2 30

Persistent routes
none

from the windows side you'll want to open network and dial up connections, make a new connection, choose dial up to the internet, then choose connect through local area network, the rest should be self explanitory.
good luck.

make a new connection, choose dial up to the internet, then choose connect through local area network, the rest should be self explanitory.

very cryptic.
Can you say this now more simple,
like "open this, click there" ?
I have no idea how to start or what you mean ...
I'm not a system freak, like told before,
I'm just a stupid programmer.
I assume on the linux side everything looks fine to you if you
only talk about the windoze side ?

You can assemble your hardware so I am sure you can work it out Yes I am a humble programmer also.

Anyway from XP
1. click Start
2. click Control panel
3. click internet options
4. click the Connections tab
5. click Lan settings
6. complete all the stuff

or

1. click Start
2. click on "connect to"
3. click on "show all connections"
4. Under "network tasks" click on create a new connection
5. Complete all the stuff for a lan

well,
I don't know which way I shoud ask,
but please give me clear instructions till the end ...

"and from there it explains itself",
sorry, it doesn't ...

let's take the win 98 exampe:
don't see a "connect to" in the start ...

win xp example,
internet connection options:

lan settings:
automaticly detect setting ? doesn't work
use automatic configuration script ?
exept from typing the 192.168.0.1 address there
I can't imagine something better.
Doesn't work.

Proxy settings ?
I don't have a proxy server .....

Please guys,
on my bare knees ?
how ?

if anybody knows how to add environment variables ...

last attempt made my linux crash ...

export command doesn't seem to work,
and changing a configure file apparently made the crash ...

While reinstalling I didn't do a thing on the network settings,
still need help, anyone, PLEASE ?

In winxp go to network connections and tcp/ip add ur linux ip address of 192.168.1.3 as ur dns gateway also check in ie options that ur browser is set to medium (as this can hinder ur network) In ur first post u said u had run the ics wizard (was this in the windoze environment in which case winxp will be 192.168.0.1 (127.0.0.1 is ur localhost which u leave alone) so if ur trying to ping ur windoze machine then go with 192.168.0.1 to make things easy for your network I would make ur linux machine 192.168.0.2. I would statically assign addresses and then also add ur win98 machine 192.168.0.3. Start with the basic thing of setting up your linux side and then adding your other machines one by one. It`s easy to get frustrated with it all but I am sure it`s just something simple that u have probably overlooked :-)

ps am willing to help u sort it out but it`s late here so if i don`t get back to u , will help 2moro... hang in there u will get it sorted.....someone may comeback with help b4 then :-)