hi,

im a total newbie to linux, and i just installed mandrake 10 on my pc.

i used to have wxp on it, and connect to my other pc with w98 through a crossover tp cable. this works fine, and i use this for both local filesharing and internetsharing.

internet is connected to my second nic (eth1) through pppoe on the wxp/mandrake pc, and works fine both in xp and linux.

the problem is that i cannot for my life get any connection with the w98 pc in linux, even though the hw is working correct since it works fine when i boot in wxp. i try ping'ing, but just get some errormessages saying 'destination host unreachable' or something like that. the same thing happens when i try to ping the linux pc from w98.

the settings on the linux pc is ip 192.168.0.1 mask 255.255.255.0 and the w98 pc is set to obtain ip automatically (the internet connection sharing tool in windows did that); currently it has ip 192.168.0.93 mask 255.255.255.0 and default gw 192.168.0.1.

so...basically i need help with two things, 1. get the pings up and running so that i have something to work on, and 2. share the internet connection on the mandrake pc to the w98 pc.

i've searched on the internet for days about this, but havent gotten anywhere so any help would be very much appreciated!

thanks!