SOHOware Ethernet Adapter(SFA110A) mandrake linux 9.2 (eth0 wont start)
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Location: United States, New York, Carmel via Putnam County
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SOHOware Ethernet Adapter(SFA110A) mandrake linux 9.2 (eth0 wont start)
Hi. I have mandrake linux 9.2 and when I start up my computer and boot into linux eth0 doesnt start up. Although when i'm in linux I could connect to the internet. The title of this thread has what ethernet adapter I have. Well I figured if eth0 fails on startup how could I have internet? I have a game battlefield 1942 and when I host nobody joins. I figured its because eth0 wont startup.
I think I dont have the right ethernet card driver installed. Actually i'm almost sure its wrong. The thing is I downloaded the driver for my network adapter and tried to compile it. I get a bunch of errors. Its in C form tulip.c. I figured it may be because I dont have the correct headers included. I have the kernel source installed though.
If you can connect to the internet, and you are not using a regular modem, then your ethernet device is coming up. You can try the ifconfig command to make sure. Enter the command as root. There may also be a handy network monitoring tool called net_monitor.
I'm guessing that you're ISP connection uses DHCP, and that your linksys router uses NAT translation to send the traffic to the correct computer.
You need to forward the tcp/udp port that the game server uses so that it goes to your computer. That traffic is going to the router, and the router doesn't know what to do to it.
On my linksys cable router, it has a web interface for configuration. Enter 192.168.0.1 in the brower address bar. I believe that you need to enter admin in the password field if this is the first time you've accessed it.
You also need to make sure that the firewall will allow connections on this port. After that, you could start the game server and enter the command as root: netstat -lc
This will give you a live listing of listening ports.
If hopefully, things look good then, contact a friend who plays this game, and have him try connecting.
Location: United States, New York, Carmel via Putnam County
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My linksys router uses dhcp and doesnt translate it with a nat address. I have already port fowarded everything in the router so I know that thats not the problem. It works in windows. I still need to try the ifconfig as root. I will try ifconfig in the shell above the gui.
to me I dont see a problem but when I start battlefield 1942 up and host noone joins even though I have everything port fowarded correctly. Hmm there must be something else I'm not doing.
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