the ipconfig command gives the correct output, as does route print. I know the cable works, casue i've used it already for a few hours this morning. I'm beginning to doubt the network card in the linux machine - its a 3com etherlink III ISA card

the output of /sbin/route that you post shows that the gateway is not set to 192.168.0.1

how do i set the gateway? I tried it with netconfig but it isn't changing anything

post your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf please, so we will see.

here is /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

#config information for eth0:
IPADDR [0]="192.168.0.2"
NETMASK[0]="255.255.255.0"
USE_DCHP[0]=""
DCHP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

#Config information for eth1:
DDR [1]=""
NETMASK[1]=""
USE_DCHP[1]=""
DCHP_HOSTNAME[1]=""

#Config information for eth2:
DDR [2]=""
NETMASK[2]=""
USE_DCHP[2]=""
DCHP_HOSTNAME[2]=""

#Config information for eth3:
DDR [3]=""
NETMASK[3]=""
USE_DCHP[3]=""
DCHP_HOSTNAME[3]=""

#Default gateway IP address:
GATEWAY="192.168.0.1"

DEBUG_ETH_UP="no"

Maybe you have to add route by hand, in slackware machine try :

/sbin/route add -net 192.168.0.0 eth0

then, try to ping 192.168.0.2 from windows xp

[edit]
You can bring the gatway in slackware like this :
/sbin/route add default gw 192.168.0.1 metric 1

/sbin/route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask eth0 returns the error:
eth0: Host name lookup failure

Well, basically you shouldn't need to setup the gateway by hand with route add. If you need it then something is wrong with your installation.
Try:

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 stop
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 start

then try:

route -n

which should list all of your routes, including a default route (Destination 0.0.0.0) going via eth0. If this is not the case (it means that your installation is not ok and) you shold try with

route add default gw eth0

I'm not sure this last command has correct syntax and I can't check it at the moment, just read 'man route' and play a bit with 'dev' 'netmask' 'gw' and so on. Basically you should have at the end:

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 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
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0

and that's it.

Valerio Daelli

I set it up like you said, but the XP machine still doesn't detect the linux machine at all, it says that a network cable is disconnected