Re: assistance requested

["Zachary Florian" <zflorian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > well then i do believe i've narrowed it down some...
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> > 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):
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> > when i try to ping with Win98 it times out...
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> If the Linux says network is unavailabe this is what should happen.
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> > when i try to ping with Linux it says network is unavailable
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> 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


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> > 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...
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> in /etc/conf.modules:
>   alias eth0 tulip
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hmm... that's what my /etc/conf.modules looks like...

peculiar

> > 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.
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