I've checked a great number of discussion about that in that site but I never found what I need to answer my problems. I'll tell you more about what I'm using :

486 sx 25 mhz
8 meg ram
1.2 gig hd
linux slackware 8.0
a ne 2000 card (compatible)

I have many difficulties to configure (or install) the ne card. It's being detected when I do modprobe (I've ajusted the modules.conf). Modules.conf looks like this:

alias eth0 ne
options ne io=0x300 irq=10

(I've configurated my card in dos)

ifconfig eth0 returns the HWaddr adress of the card... so I think it's well configurated.

When I ping my card, using 192.168.0.3 (ip when I put one) with the command :

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.3

I get a return but when it's from my other winxp computer or when I try to ping my winxp computer... In windows it says request time out and in linux it is a ping but never answered, stay still.

When afterwards I do an ifconfig eth0

I get RX packets : 0 errors: X (number)

thanks

Have you configured routing tables?
Use route command. The default should be eth0
route del default
route add default eth0

I've done this...

When I ping others IP it wrote:
PING 192.168.0.10(192.168.0.10): 56 octets data
wait...

When I wait a while ifconfig of eth0 still show me RX errors : 10

Doesn't change my problem... looks like the card could not catch answers???

Michel

Are all cables correct?

I exchanged them and tried, my xp computer is going fine...


Maybe if I reset the bios... Does the bios keep in mind the adress of the isa card?

Michel

It's isa? So maybe look for the right module and
modprobe io=xxxx irq=zzzz

Did you remember my first message? It's written in the modules.conf:

alias eth0 ne
options ne io=0x300 irq=10

So... and you know, I think it's when it receives somethings that fucked...

Could you try this modprobe manually? What is it writting?

It worked... the card is detected...

what should I do now?

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1

When I ping myself, it's ok... when I ping others in the network... I never received nothing:

exemple:
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

What are the IPs you are pinging? Are they located on the same subnet as your's is? Can they ping you? What type of computer are you pinging?

These questions will help a lot in determining what is going on. If you aren't on the same subnet then it could be a problem. if they are ext IPs and since yours is an int unaddressible from the outside then that could also be a problem. Also if the machine trying to be pinged is a firewalled system then it could auto drop any pings.

Look into the command route. Maybe try
route del default
route add default eth0
(packets to other ips will be sent into the network).

My xp computer 192.168.0.10, my linux computer 192.168.0.3 so yes they are in the same Subnet. They cannot ping themselves, the only one that is working is the xp one, my linux computer, like I said, cannot receive answer. Don't know why... My xp computer is a pentium 2 400 mhz, windows xp pro...

Michel

have you added your default gateway ??

route add default gw x.x.x.x

and you can also add your DNS entries too if your on the internet in resolv.conf.

-trickykid