heh.. thats a lower case "L" man.. "lsmod"

DOH!

Ok after I LSmod the thing i put it to a txt file then when I do a modprobe is says unable to find module something.txt .... so I the lsmod doesnt change..

Module Size Used by Not tainted
autofs 11940 0 (autoclean) (unused)
natsemi 18472 0
ide-scsi 9312 0
scsi_mod 103904 1 [ide-scsi]
ide-cd 29856 0
cdrom 33184 0 [ide-cd]
usb-uhci 23492 0 (unused)
usbcore 71168 1 [usb-uhci]
ext3 64448 5
jbd 47608 5 [ext3]


those are ther results from the 1st lsmod... But again, the netprobe -t * , doesnt work because it says something about can not load module something.txt (which i know modules are not txt files... i think.. lol)

copy and past that results in to a courier font based program (not notepad though ) and it should line up

okay... it doesn't matter... it shows that the module is loaded for your network card at the first "lsmod".

Okay.. what does "ifconfig -a " show?

Also, what about hostnames? You said your ISP gave you two IP addresses, did they give you two hostnames for your systems as well?

-K.

No they didnt give me hostnames but JUST to make sure I am not bypassing something because you said that windows doesn't need it, I sent them an email and will have the results by the time I get back from school. They are fairl good with their email tech support... Anyway.. to ifconfig -a. brb testing...

Uhh Ok I did Ifconfig -a and it brought back an eth0.. But no Ip address. And where does the output info go to... ?

Ok I exported it with the > asfd.txt command as an experiment, and ta da, it worked. here are the results.

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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:E3:1D:45:2E
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2360 (2.3 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4582 (4.4 Kb) TX bytes:4582 (4.4 Kb)

hrmmm

Card is loaded an recognized.... did you say that you were not getting a link light on the switch/hub for this connection?

-K.

yes, you are correct. no link lights.. i will try my working cable but I already tried it.. wait better idea. i will take the cable right now, plug it in to another one and create a loop. cable tester...

got link lights. poor cable quality. But before a couple hours ago.. i lent my good cable to a friend.. So dont think the work wasnt for nothing. Plus I still have to test it online.

didnt work. . But I have link lights... So now what?? I am restarting just to make sure...

Okay... Link Lights are a MUST. If all else is right, and you now have lights, you should be able to just "service network restart" and have it work.


K

I restarted. eth0 no longer says failed.. I am getting exicted. If this works. You get pass to my private CS Server. All I can offer , sorry... But... it's still cool. And if you dont have half-life give the ip to some friends for a personal server... If i can give you rcon to if youwant