Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi!
I've just installed a minimal potato sytem (no GUI) in order to
continue installing the rest of the stuff I need via the web.
The machine uses a 3c905c tx NIC. Following the advices from this
list I intalled the 3c59x driver for it. I disabled too the
plug and play option in the BIOS (another suggestion from this list,
which solved and IRQ conflict with the NIC).
The problem is that I can't reach anything in my LAN. Here are the
outputs from the ifconfig and route commands:
nostromo:/home/chiappa# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:03:DD:17:4C
inet addr:152.92.133.47 Bcast:152.92.133.63 Mask:255.255.255.192
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb400
nostromo:/home/chiappa# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
localnet * 255.255.255.192 U 0 0 0 eth0
it seems that the gateway is not assigned yet, but I gave the gw IP during
the installation. If I use route for configuring it (thanks David!) I get:
nostromo:/home/chiappa# route add default gw 152.92.133.1
SIOCADDRT: File exists
and nothing is done.
What could be wrong with the NIC?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Regards,
Marcelo
I don't think anything is wrong with the NIC.
I "think" your problem may be in one of you config files. An "ifconfig"
command without any arguments shoud list both the local loopback (lo)
and your NIC (eth0). I don't see the "lo" interface listed above. I
recall someone else having this sort of problem a while back during an
initial install, and the missing "lo" interface was the reason. You
might want to re-do the "ifconfig" command and re-check this.
Normally the initial config of all the interfaces during the startup of
the network is controlled by a file called "/etc/network/interfaces".
There is also a MAN page for it (man interfaces). You might want to
refer to the man page and compare it to your /etc/network/interfaces
file and see what is going wrong. Pay particular attention to the
stanza for the "lo" interface. As I reall, the syntax of this file in
Potato is somewhat different from what it is in "Testing", which I use.
Alternatively, you can post that file here and get a few more eyeballs
on it to help look for a problem.
Your second message shows that most of your other config options appear
to be correct, assuming there are no typos.
Cheers & Good Luck!
-Don Spoon-
