Hi Tsan-Ming Chou...that worked! Thanks a lot! And thanks for your time 
too, William Hermans!

On Thursday, April 17, 2014 11:42:59 AM UTC+5:30, Tsan-Ming Chou wrote:
>
> Please refer to "How to enable ICMP echo requests (Ping) in Windows XP"  (
> http://wiki.phys.ethz.ch/readme/how_to_enable_icmp_echo_requests_ping_in_windows_xp_service_pack_2
> ).
>
>
> 2014-04-17 13:26 GMT+08:00 William Hermans <yyr...@gmail.com <javascript:>
> >:
>
>> That gateway address should be wrong. That would be the network. 
>> 192.168.1.1 may be the gateway / nameserver, but i am not sure how your 
>> network is setup.
>>
>> How are your BBxM and host computer connected ? USBNET or ethernet ? IS 
>> there a router between the two systems or is teh BBxM connected directly to 
>> the host computer ? Host to me implies they are directly connected, but I 
>> do not remember if the xM has onboard ethernet or not.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Jacob Vasu <jaco...@gmail.com<javascript:>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I get this:
>>>  ubuntu@bbxm:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
>>> auto lo
>>> iface lo inet loopback
>>> auto eth0
>>> iface eth0 inet static
>>> address 192.168.1.4
>>> netmask 255.255.255.0
>>> gateway 192.168.1.0
>>> hwaddress ether 3e:7f:da:ee:b1:db
>>>
>>> On Thursday, April 17, 2014 10:37:24 AM UTC+5:30, William Hermans wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, I am not sure what you're doing there, but those nameservers do not 
>>>> match your ifconfig output.
>>>>
>>>> Try commenting out all of those atleast temporarily by adding a pound 
>>>> sign in front of ech statement ( # ) andthen add . . .
>>>>
>>>>  nameserver 192.168.1.1
>>>>
>>>> Just for kicks what do you have in /etc/network/interfaces ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Jacob Vasu <jaco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi William, 
>>>>>
>>>>> ubuntu@bbxm:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
>>>>> domain mathworks.com
>>>>> search mathworks.com
>>>>> nameserver 144.212.95.9
>>>>> nameserver 144.212.95.8
>>>>> nameserver 144.212.2.11
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, April 17, 2014 9:13:42 AM UTC+5:30, William Hermans wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What is the contents of /etc/resolv.conf ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Jacob Vasu <jaco...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm using MATLAB to program my beagleboard xm. I ran into a strange 
>>>>>>> problem. I'm able to ping the board from my host machine (Windows 7) 
>>>>>>> but 
>>>>>>> not the other way around i.e. I cannot ping my host from the bbxm. Here 
>>>>>>> are 
>>>>>>> my results for ifconfig on the bbxm:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ubuntu@bbxm:~$ ifconfig
>>>>>>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3e:7f:da:ee:b1:db
>>>>>>>           inet addr:192.168.1.4  Bcast:192.168.1.255 
>>>>>>>  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>>>>>>           inet6 addr: fe80::3c7f:daff:feee:b1db/64 Scope:Link
>>>>>>>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1488  Metric:1
>>>>>>>           RX packets:297 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>>>>>           TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>>>>>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>>>>>>           RX bytes:20184 (20.1 KB)  TX bytes:4860 (4.8 KB)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>>>>>>>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>>>>>>>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>>>>>>>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>>>>>>>           RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>>>>>           TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>>>>>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>>>>>>           RX bytes:1656 (1.6 KB)  TX bytes:1656 (1.6 KB)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My BB OS is ubuntu
>>>>>>> ubuntu@bbxm:~$ lsb_release -a
>>>>>>> No LSB modules are available.
>>>>>>> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>>>>>>> Description:    Ubuntu 11.04
>>>>>>> Release:        11.04
>>>>>>> Codename:       natty
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any idea what's causing this? Thanks!
>>>>>>>  
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