> Urban Widmark wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, surinder singh wrote:
> >
> > > i assigned irq 0x300 through #netconf and after that
> > ^^^^^^^^^
> > ioport I assume? Are you sure that is necessary?
>
> Sorry , it is indeed ioport. I need it because the NIC is EISA and it need to
> manually set ioport and IRQ. I didn't set the the irq and linux took it by itself
> with ifconfig (don't know how). That was the only change that made it over n/w.
>
> >
> >
> > > #ifconfig eth0 <ip> netmask <mask>
> > > and it was up.
> >
> > And working?
>
> yes but on LAN only
>
> >
> >
> > > but then i rebooted and while boot time i didn't come up
> > > and following messages was on screen
> >
> > So the card is working, but when you reboot it no longer works, until you
> > manually set it up? Looks like you have some error in the configuration
> > made in "netconf", double check that and compare it with what you do when
> > you configure it manually.
>
> Yes, I got it. I was using BOOTP option for setting IP. I changed it to manual and
> after that the eth0 was up at booting also.( I mistakenly interpretted bootp for
> something to activate interface at boot time rather than remote booting)
>
> >
> >
> > Btw, you still haven't said what card you have (d-link makes a few
> > different cards). Maybe if you do someone will be able to give you better
> > help.
>
> I tried NE2000 driver. I couldn't make out the model of card. All that i know is
> that it is an EISA ethernet card. Its working now :)
>
> >
> >
> > If you do 'lsmod' you get a list of loaded modules, the driver for your
> > card should be listed there I think. Does that match what is shown in
> > 'netconf' ?
> >
>
> NE2000 comes there also
>
> >
> > > if i execute ifconfig manually it works. even then i am unable to ping a
> > > machine outside my IP netmask. ie i cann't ping 164.164.18.5. i can ping
> > > gateway 164.164.58.1 and specified gateway in #netcfg also but unable to ping
> > > outside.
> > > output of
> > > #route
> > > --------------
> > > Kernel IP routing table
> > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> > > 164.164.58.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> > > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
> > > lo
> > > -----------------
> >
> > You could try adding a default gateway manually, something like:
> > route add default gw 164.164.58.1
> > (see the man page for route)
> >
>
> Your these lines made my machine able to access out through gateway.
>
> >
> > This should not be necessary when you get the startup-scripts configured
> > correctly.
>
> > /Urban
>
> Thanks a LOT for all your support.
> Surinder
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