by Hi, I am new to unix and linux. I am trying to setup my linux box
(486DX2-66). I am using 3Com 3c509 Ethernet card. The linux box is kernel
1.1.59 which is a CD version of linux plug and play. When I boot up, the
linux kernel reconized the 3 com card and shows follows:
<6>eth0, 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1. BNC port, address 00 20 af 2f f6 f0, IRQ 10.
After I boot up, I setup the configure-network from control panel. After I
entered the ip address for the eth0 device, I push the "Try Changes" key. I
always get an error as follows:
Error:SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable.
I have been spending too much time and bought the linux bible. I still can
not figure it out. Please help...
Here are my configuration:
ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap 10Mbps Ether HWaddress 00:20:af:2f:f6:f0
inet addr 17.145.20.2 Bcast 17.145.20.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
BROADCAST RUNNING MTU 1500 Metic 1
RX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
TX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
Interrupt 10 Base address 0x300
route
Kernel routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window Use Iface
localhost * 255.255.255.255 UH 1936 0 19 lo
17.145.20.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 1436 0 0 ether0
arp -a
Address HW type HW address Flags
17.145.20.2 10Mbps Ethernet 00:20:af:2f:f6:f0 CMP
Whenever I ping to the "17.145.20.2", I didn't get any response back.
However, if I play around with SLIP as following:
dip /etc/connection.dip
with the bougus phone number, I can able to ping the "17.145.20.2" although
I could never connect to the other end.
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Robert Lee
Apple Computer, Inc.
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