With some help from the Newbie forum, I'm now running a Red Hat 7.2 box. I just put a D-Link 230-TX ethernet card in it -- it auto installed with Kudzu (is that what its called?) pretty easily, but I can't do anything with it.

Right now the network is just a crossover cable to a WinXP machine. My linux box dual boots to Win98 SE, and the Win98 box can surf the Internet and see the WinXP machine in it's Network Neighbourhood (and ping it).

From the linux box, I can ping localhost. I can't ping 192.168.0.1 (the IP of the WinXP box), or ping it by name.

What do I do? Any pointers? Is this a FAQ?

The Internet setup tool in KDE seems to assume I'm directly connected to the 'net.

what's the print of ifconfig on your linux machine ?
seem's that you didn't setup the NIC IF correctly ...

ifconfig says:

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:188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12242 (11.9 Kb) TX bytes:12242 (11.9 Kb)

Ran it later and the RX packets and TX packets were up...doesn't that mean it's at least connecting?

I checked the network config, and when I try to set up the ethernet card with the same IRQ, memory, and I/O as Win98 uses. The PCI listing in the info agrees with that too (IRQ 11, mem e1000000, don't remember the i/o).

hi,
your interface ins't running -
assuming your linux box has the ip 192.168.0.5 - try -
"ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
after that run ifconfig again or report any messages...

you said you've got an pci ethernet card ? what chipset is on this card installed?
check if this card is supported by your redhat system if not get a new driver by the card vendor ...

--
robert.

Thanks, I'll try that. The card is a D-Link DFE 530 TX...it uses a Via chipset, and RH 7.2 chose a driver automatically which matches the one the manufacturer's website says to use.

Some progress -- I first ran "modprobe via-rhine", which failed, but I retried one of the commands in it ("insmod", maybe?), and managed to get the card recognized, so then I could run the ifconfig command. I can now ping my XP machine!

But I still don't get any internet from it...I'll try setting it as the gateway.

And setting it as the gateway was all I needed! Got Samba going, too, and I already printed off the WinXP machine.

how did u get the internet running?