I tried to follow this through the HOWTOs but I must have gotten lost. I've installed Debian on the computer at the office (the second place I installed it), connected to a Novell network with an SMC EtherPower card.
The kernel is 2.0.27 with support compiled in for... Networking PCI bios TCP/IP networking IPX protocol Network device, Dummy net driver PPP SLIP Ethernet -> EISA/VLB/PCI & on-board controllers -> DEC chip Tulip(dc21x4x) PCI NCP filesystem support proc filesystem support. I installed most packages in net, including the ncpfs package. On startup, the card seems to be recognized with the following message... eth0: smc9332 (DEC 21140 Tulip) at 0x1080, 00:00:c0:cc:ad:f9, IRQ 11. However, before I'm able to access the network drives, I'm told eth0 is down, as in the following exchange... debian# ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on debian# slist slist: No primary IPX interface found in ncp_initialize debian# ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 ipx_interface: Requested device (eth0) is down. Can something be missing? The ipx files under /proc are empty and I can't find an `ncp_initialize.' DOS and NT on the same machine connect to the network effortlessly, but I'd really rather do it from Linux. In a possibly unrelated matter, trying to pull down the Options menu in Netscape paralyzes the whole system. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Mike -- Michael Hill Toronto, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .