I'm trying to set up a router for a LAN to cable modem connection, by Wednesday. The box is an old 486dx4-100. I have installed RH 7.1 using the Server installation class. The network where this will be installed is at another location, so setup and testing there will have to wait.
The current problem is that I can't get a ping out of it. The ethernet cards are both Linksys ISA "Ether16 LAN Card". The installation did not detect them, but they were detected by kudzu and configured on the reboot. They are set with pnp enabled. They are started at boot. (eth0 fails because it is set to use DHCP, and is not hooked to anything yet) lsmod reports ne loaded, I assume this is the correct module. Module Size Used by autofs 11008 1 (autoclean) ne 7008 1 (autoclean) 8390 6304 0 (autoclean) [ne] ipchains 36128 0 (unused) isapnp detects the cards, according to dmesg: ... isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'Ethernet PnP ISA Card /S' isapnp: Card 'Ethernet PnP ISA Card /S' isapnp: 2 Plug & Play cards detected total ... ne then detects them: ... eth0: NE2000 found at 0x240, using IRQ 5. ... eth1: NE2000 found at 0x260, using IRQ 10. this is followed by a long string of Tx timeouts, eg: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x43, ISR=0x3, t=1110. I'm sure that is because it's not connected to anything. cat /proc/interrupts says: ... 5: 0 XT-PIC NE2000 ... 10: 1 XT-PIC NE2000 ... (There are no conflicts) cat /proc/ioports says: ... 0213-0213 : isapnp read 0240-025f : eth0 0260-027f : eth1 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) ... The IP address for eth1 is set to 192.168.1.254 (for now) ping -c 10 -I eth1 192.168.1.127 (my laptop) returns : PING 192.168.1.127 (192.168.1.127) from 192.168.1.254 eth1: 56(84) bytes of data. >From 192.168.1.254: Destination Host unreachable. ... Ping from the laptop to 192.168.1.254 reports "Host is down" The PWR/Tx indicator on the card shows power on and flashes on the outgoing pings. The LNK/rx indicator on the card shows connected and flashes on the outgoing pings. The LNK/rx indicator on the card flashes on the incoming pings. The two machines are connected with a functional crossover cable. The laptop/cable combination works with another machine. All indications show a functional setup, but it doesn't work. Why? -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Carl Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------- Support Organized Crime- Buy Microsoft products _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
