Re: networking problem during install

2001-09-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:39:44PM -0700, Bob Galloway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well, I finally got the box to network. As god as my witness, I have > no idea why this worked, but it worked: I swapped the NetGear card out > of the box, replaced it with the LinkSys card, and tried one more ti

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-30 Thread Bob Galloway
Well, I finally got the box to network. As god as my witness, I have no idea why this worked, but it worked: I swapped the NetGear card out of the box, replaced it with the LinkSys card, and tried one more time. Funny, it works now. I'm still scratching my head wondering why it didn't work th

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:56:22AM -0700, Bob Galloway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 04:55:15PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:04:51PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Another thought: PCI bus problems? > > > > > > Have you tried an alternate

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-30 Thread Bob Galloway
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 04:55:15PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:04:51PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Another thought: PCI bus problems? > > > > Have you tried an alternate card in the box? If everthing outside the > > box works, the card(s) work, and the CPU isn't

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-29 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:04:51PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Another thought: PCI bus problems? > > Have you tried an alternate card in the box? If everthing outside the > box works, the card(s) work, and the CPU isn't misbehaving, I'd suspect > a mobo/bus problem. No idea how to diagnose

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:33:06PM -0700, Bob Galloway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Howdy, deb folk! > > I'm trying to turn an old AT&T Globalyst P90 box into a firewall > running Debian. Installation via NFS would be much easier if I could > get networking to work! Too bad I can't seem to get

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-29 Thread Bob Galloway
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:51:21AM -0400, James D Strandboge wrote: > Forgive me I this is redundant, but is your ethernet card set to auto > negotiate > its speed? Sometimes this can be a problem if you are on a 10BaseT network > and > the card goes to 100Baset. I'm using 10BaseT. When I swap

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-29 Thread James D Strandboge
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:10:21AM -0700 or thereabouts, Bob Galloway wrote: Forgive me I this is redundant, but is your ethernet card set to auto negotiate its speed? Sometimes this can be a problem if you are on a 10BaseT network and the card goes to 100Baset. Jamie Strandboge -- "The goal o

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-29 Thread Bob Galloway
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:33:04PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Okay. I just tried again with potato install disks, from the 'compact' > > series. Same problems as with slink. Great sadness and woe. > > > > A recap: > > - ifconfig reports TX packets, but no RX packets. > > - networ

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:08:22PM -0700, Bob Galloway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:01:51PM -0700, Bob Galloway wrote: > > > Do you have the installation stuff on the NFS export? It may be > > > easier to download rescue and root floppies from the potato installers > >

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-29 Thread Bob Galloway
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:01:51PM -0700, Bob Galloway wrote: > > Do you have the installation stuff on the NFS export? It may be > > easier to download rescue and root floppies from the potato installers > > and do a network install. You'd be using a 2.2 kernel then. > > I considered doing that

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-29 Thread Bob Galloway
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:51:20AM -0400, dman wrote: > tulip driver ... I've heard stories from some people that older tulip > drivers don't work with certain newer cards. What NIC are you using? > Personally I've never had any problems with the tulip driver starting > with version 0.90 and a Lin

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:33:06PM -0700, Bob Galloway wrote: | Howdy, deb folk! | | I'm trying to turn an old AT&T Globalyst P90 box into a firewall | running Debian. Installation via NFS would be much easier if I could | get networking to work! Too bad I can't seem to get the box to notice | i

networking problem during install

2001-08-28 Thread Bob Galloway
Howdy, deb folk! I'm trying to turn an old AT&T Globalyst P90 box into a firewall running Debian. Installation via NFS would be much easier if I could get networking to work! Too bad I can't seem to get the box to notice incoming packets. Symptoms: - running linux x86 2.0.36, with the tulip d