In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes:
>Hello,
>
> last week, I had a problem with my ethernet card not being detected by
>the modconf program so I asked this list. I got lots of answers and
>finally my card is detected.
>
> The problem now is that I can't make it work. I mean, I can't do ftp,
>telnet, etc... When I try some of these, I wait and wait,... If I use
>nfs as the access method to the distribution, I got the message "server
><my nfs server> seems to be down or inexistent".
>
> I have configured the network, I have installed the drivers (my card is
>a DIGITAL depca), the card is found when rebooting at the correct
>address and interruption...
>
> Could somebody give me a hint about what's happenning? Maybe there's
>something I forgot to do. I'm a beginner in LINUX, so I would apreciate
>being told what to do step by step.
>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:30:08 +0000
From: "Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
First, try the command ifconfig
You should see something like:# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:31668 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:31668 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:4F:49:00:E0:5D
inet addr:193.195.30.1 Bcast:193.195.30.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:164771 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:184328 errors:13 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xef80
#
If you don't see lo and eth0, have a look at the boot scripts in /etc/init.d
(which are linked to /etc/rc[2345].d)
If ifconfig shows these, try doing commands to localhost (which uses
the loopback interface - that is, the machine talks to itself as if it
were another machine); for example, ftp localhost, ping localhost.
If that works, try pinging other machines on your network, using their
IP numbers; next try their names. > Hello,
>
> last week, I had a problem with my ethernet card not being detected by
> the modconf program so I asked this list. I got lots of answers and
> finally my card is detected.
>
> The problem now is that I can't make it work. I mean, I can't do ftp,
> telnet, etc... When I try some of these, I wait and wait,... If I use
> nfs as the access method to the distribution, I got the message "server
> <my nfs server> seems to be down or inexistent".
>
> I have configured the network, I have installed the drivers (my card is
> a DIGITAL depca), the card is found when rebooting at the correct
> address and interruption...
>
> Could somebody give me a hint about what's happenning? Maybe there's
> something I forgot to do. I'm a beginner in LINUX, so I would apreciate
> being told what to do step by step.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Jordi INGLADA
>
>
Next look at how names are resolved - that is, translated to IP addresses.
Does your system use DNS or /etc/hosts; are these set up right? If you
send a query to a nameserver, the program will wait at least 2 minutes before
giving up.
And so on...
Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly
