i cant ping from my WIndows machine to my Suse or vice versa. everything is set up right i have disabled all fire walls to see if that made a differece but it doesnt. Suse says Destination unreachable and Windows Crashes.

any ideas?

Are they both on the same physical network? What are the IPs, and subnet masks of both computers? What do you mean by "and Windows Crashes"?

its set up like this

windows

192.168.0.1
255.255.255.0
192.168.0.1

Linux

192.168.0.2
255.255.255.0

default gateway 192.168.0.1

in windows i Do ping 192.1680.2 and it doesnt do anything, no messages it just stays blank.

In linux i go ping -c5 192.168.0.1 and it says destination unreachable

are both network cards working?
i mean check if the leds on both pcs are working

check the installation on windows
as for suse I think you have a correct set up because you cannot assign an ip if you haven't.

The light is definantly flashing away on the card connected to Linux but it isnt flashing on the windows machine. But there are no conflicts and it says the dvice is working properly. have i missed something out of the configuration in Windows mayb?

Do you have the two computers hooked directly to each other? If so make sure you are using a crossover cable if there is no switch or hub in place..


Also you dont want the Windows box to have the same IP set on it as its gateway. You didn't clarify in you post but Im guessing you have 192.168.0.1 assigned as a gateway, as well as its IP. If so remove that gateway IP.

If the 2 computers are on the same physical network, and on the same subnet you do not even need to assign a gateway.

oh rite, i will remove the deafult gateway then c if it works. do i need to do anything with the routing option? they are conneceted with a crossover cable!

If your gateway is setup as 192.168.0.1 then your windows ip address should be something else like 192.168.0.x ... x being any number between 2-255. Since your linux machine is 192.168.0.2 then your windows machine should be something like 192.168.0.3

I am assuming that your default gateway is your router and both machines are connected to eachother through a router

Also for testing purposes ping localhost (127.0.0.1) to see if your loopback works. It basically tests your NIC card.

And lastly if your winddows machine is XP then you should disable its default firewall because it blocks icmp packets which essentially is your ping request.

After testing the loopback, test the real network interface:
on windows:
on linux:

the loop back works on the Linux machine but it doesnt work with Windowz so waht does this mean then, the card is faulty