[wellylug] home network / Host unreachable

[Edouard CHALARON]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Chris Harris wrote:

Hi Chris, thanks for your reply.

> My guess would be that the hardware is not set up correctly.

It actually sounds like it but had no evidence so far.
I have a hub (16x D link), lights are on and blink when Pc1 pings Pc2
and reverse.
The Eth card on Pc1 is detected by linuxconf as old-tulip and is
detected as well by ./usernet without giving any IRQ ou I/O. Ping to Pc2
makes usernet to display red bits going out but nothing in.

To make things as clean as possible I finally defined the IRQ and I/O as
given by Kcontrol, rebooted Pc1 and... unable to load the old-tulip module
(??), bad IO (which is not after double check! (?? again)

After a bit of searching I figured out that old-tulip cards are not the
best one to go with for networking. That may be the trouble since it is
recognised as a DEC card by Kcontrol ...

Other wise /etc/hosts/ is Ok, as recommended (by Arnim) I got rid of bind,
but found nothing in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules (another source of my troubles
?)

Getting rid of the hub (Pc1 to Pc2 directly) does not improve anything
(at this stage).

So, next step will be to get a card that is fully supported by linux (any 
recommandation ?) and try without the hub. From there I'll probably manage
to make something work (hoppefully :-)

Cheers
Edouard 


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