> What exactly do you mean when you say you can't get the network to > 'start'?
/etc/init.d/network/start returns the message SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable with no other information. I switched to the tulip driver as James Lewis suggested, and it loads with no messages (de4x5 gave me messages about requiring irq11), and I still get this message from the netwrok start. >You can't ping anything? not even the next machine. >Have you got the right ifconfig and routes? I presume so. From this machine, the path is smithttyp3:hawk>traceroute hawkins.cba.uni.edu traceroute to hawkins.cba.uni.edu (134.161.248.148), 30 hops max, 40 byte packet s 1 router111.iastate.edu (129.186.111.254) 0.973 ms 0.932 ms 1.295 ms 2 b06br2-vlan253.tele.iastate.edu (129.186.253.5) 3.662 ms 1.421 ms 1.401 m s 3 b31br4-atm.tele.iastate.edu (129.186.251.31) 1.284 ms 1.361 ms 1.849 ms 4 ICN-ISU-t3.icn.state.ia.us (205.221.255.5) 3.392 ms 3.558 ms 3.237 ms 5 UNI-1-ICN-t1.icn.state.ia.us (205.221.255.186) 71.605 ms 135.451 ms 132.1 99 ms 6 starbase1.uni.edu (134.161.1.1) 152.496 ms 40.859 ms 9.195 ms 7 hawkins.cba.uni.edu (134.161.248.148) 16.941 ms 9.768 ms 11.78 ms I find the jump straight from the university gateway to my machine odd, but there doesn't appear to be a router at 134.161.248.148 (it answers pings, but ignores telnet connections. Besides, it seems possible to reach my machine without going near it). I've listed the .1.1 address as my router.0 >Do you need dhcp? I've assumed not. I get the same IP address every time, so I presume that they're static. I don't know what that means on a network the tech support people (in explaining why I'd "waived" support by the sin of installing linux) claim is pure novell (TCP/IP is actually disabled on the network printers). The IPX faq seems to cover printing & directories on novell well enough for me to deal with, but first I need access to the world :( rick
