Re: assistance requested

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>>> well then i do believe i've narrowed it down some...
>>
>>> when i specified the first three sets of numbers in the ip address 
to
>>be the
>>> same correctly this happened (i incorrectly set that and was unable 
to
>> get
>>> e-mail for a bit):
>>
>>> when i try to ping with Win98 it times out...
>>
>>If the Linux says network is unavailabe this is what should happen.
>>
>>> when i try to ping with Linux it says network is unavailable
>>
>> What does "netstat -r" show?
>Kernel IP routing table
>Destination    Gateway    Genmask    Flags    MSS Windo    irtt     
Iface
>127.0.0.0        *                    255.0.0.0    U            0 0
>0        lo

You should have a

192.168.90.0	*			255.255.255.0 eth0

Which you can add with
route add -net 192.168.90.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0

once you get the eth0 interface up

>>
>>> and once i finally got "ifconfig" to report the appropriate
>>information i
>>> realized that somehow it's not realizing that there's an eth0 
there...
>>:)
>>> so... how to get that working... i know that it should use the tulip
>>module
>>> (it's a beautiful Linksys card... but how to get it to load the 
module
>>i do
>>> not know...
>>
>>in /etc/conf.modules:
>>   alias eth0 tulip
>>
>hmm... that's what my /etc/conf.modules looks like...

Does "lsmod" show the tulip mod as loaded?
Does "dmesg" mention eth0?
If tulip is not loaded what does "modprobe tulip" do?

Have you tried "ifconfig eth0 192.168.90.0 netmask 255.255.255.0"?
(Then issue the above route command).

> peculiar

Yep.