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Hello,

I have Redhat 5.2 on an old pentium 133 with an ISa net card, not sure of
the brand.  I cannot get the machine to ping other machines on our network.
and I cannot ping the linux box from other machines.

I have messed around with Linux before and got  the i/o addresss and irq
numbers from windows before formatting and installing redhat.  Is it safe to
assume that if within redhat a ping of the local host 127.0.0.1 brings a
repkly then the cvard is installed correctly?

If I remeber correctly the card was installed in win98 as a NE2000
compatable.

Regards,

Ruairi Glenn

A successful ping to 127.0.0.1 means that your TCP/IP stack is running
correctly, and tells you nothing about your card driver. Same goes for
pinging your own ip address.

Ruairi schreef:

Quote:

> Hello,

> I have Redhat 5.2 on an old pentium 133 with an ISa net card, not sure of
> the brand.  I cannot get the machine to ping other machines on our network.
> and I cannot ping the linux box from other machines.

> I have messed around with Linux before and got  the i/o addresss and irq
> numbers from windows before formatting and installing redhat.  Is it safe to
> assume that if within redhat a ping of the local host 127.0.0.1 brings a
> repkly then the cvard is installed correctly?

> If I remeber correctly the card was installed in win98 as a NE2000
> compatable.

> Regards,

> Ruairi Glenn

I think the way to see if your NIC is working, is to issue a:

% netstat -i

and see what it returns. (-i stands for "interfaces")

I think i found an answer for you at redhat.
I have a similar card but havent tried this solution
yet.http://customer.support.redhat.com/rhoaprod/plsql/xxrh_know_pkg.srch2?
p_id=77
tell me if this helps