Hi
I am runing Mandrake 9 and trying to install alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem. I have some problems with the route table.
Now it looks like this:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Iface
10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 40 lo
0.0.0.0 10.0.0.138 0.0.0.0 UG 40 eth0

When I try to ping 10.0.0.138 I don't get any answear.
What could be wrong?
Please help me.
Best regards
Tilda

ifconfig will give you a list of working interfaces and their ip numbers.
I eth0 doesn't show there as 10.0.0.138, you are pinging into nowhere.
There will be scripts to alter the default gateway (last line in the routing table) to match the ppp0 interface from the modem, which may also not reset the gateway device correctly once the modem is shut off...

Thanks for the answear.

My ifconfig looks like this:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:400:21:32:F7
inet addr:10.0.0.10 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:89 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5592 (5.4 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x7000

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:131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10240 (10.0 Kb) TX bytes:10240 (10.0 Kb)

It seems that eth0 is not pointing at 10.0.0.138.
How should I fix this problem?
You are talking about some scripts. Do you know where I can find them?

Thanks again!

maybe this thread could help you

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=21404

good luck