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?

> 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

> btw for ip address i'm using 192.168.90.x i forget how i came up with 
that
> ip address, but that's what i'm using...

Thats a great address.