Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Okay, looks like the driver is bad. There was another message on the list saying that there is a known problem with the shipped driver and the SOHOware card. Check the archives at the Mandrake website for resolution. That fixed it. Thanks -- I owe you a beer, if you are ever in Central NJ, let me know, so I can buy you one -- Alex
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Is this a mistype? Check 'ifconfig eth0' on Linux and 'winipcfg' on Windows to see what each thinks it's IP is. Yes that was a typo, the corrected numbers are Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.2 /etc/hosts 192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1 192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs 192.168.1.2 linux1 basement That first line should read: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost I fixed that else you'll find that some things break. Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400. tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11. Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'? Here it is: [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 [root@localhost alex]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Would I be correct in thinking that the 192.168.1.0 in the above destinations should be something else (line 192.168.1.1 ?) or am I completely off base? -- Alex
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400. tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11. Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'? Here it is: [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 [root@localhost alex]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Would I be correct in thinking that the 192.168.1.0 in the above destinations should be something else (line 192.168.1.1 ?) or am I completely off base? No, that line is correct. It says that for any address in 192.168.1.X, use the ethernet interface. All of the interfaces and routing looks correct. Could you try one more thing? On a linux terminal, start a 'ping 192.168.1.2'. Then switch terminals and run tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output Then mail a good portion of the tcpdump-output file to the list. One other thing, I seem to remember seeing something in your original log messages about the card being put into 100Tx mode. Is the Windows side also 100Mb? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, you wrote: I just got a home lan set up (sort of anyway) Everything works fine when all boxes are running under win98. However when both machines are running different os's (Linux/WIn98 or Win98/Linux) combos (both are dual boot), neither machine can ping the other. I read the ethernet howto and I think I am more confused than when I started. All I want to do (for now) is get the 2 boxes to be able to ping one another. This is the setup so far Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 EACH machine **MUST** have a different IP address. You cannot have BOTH machines as 192.168.1.1. That's your problem right there. Networking 101 -- each machine must have a unique IP address on the network. Try changing one of the above machines to 192.168.1.2 and I'll bet your ping will work! John
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Alex V Flinsch wrote:
I just got a home lan set up (sort of anyway)
Everything works fine when all boxes are running under win98.
However when both machines are running different os's (Linux/WIn98 or
Win98/Linux) combos (both are dual boot), neither machine can ping the other.
I read the ethernet howto and I think I am more confused than when I started.
All I want to do (for now) is get the 2 boxes to be able to ping one another.
This is the setup so far
Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1
Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1
Everything is connected together with the "SOHOWare 10/100 Network Starter Kit"
(picked up at a computer flea market for $45. It says Linux is supported on the
box, and includes the tulip driver). And the card seems to be recoginized while
booting.
I have included a few files/messages along with this post. I might be just
looking in the wrong place as it's been one heck of a crazy day.
The only thing I can think of is that I need to do something special to
configure the hub. If so, where can I find the information?
/etc/hosts
192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1
192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs
192.168.1.2 linux1 basement
/etc/conf/modules
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias sound sb
pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1
options opl3 io=0x388
alias midi awe_wave
post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
alias eth0 tulip
options tulip options=0 debug=6
demsg sez
[snip]
Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400.
tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11.
read_eeprom:
8000 f8c6 9794
0014 0300 0531 10d9 fa1c
PCI latency timer (CFLT) is 0x40, PCI command is 0087.
eth0: tulip_open() irq 11.
eth0: No media description table, assuming 100baseTx transceiver, CSR12 40a1d0cc
..
eth0: Done tulip_open(), CSR0 fff84800, CSR5 e452 CSR6 38602002.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe4570001 new csr5=0xe456.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe4170005 new csr5=0xe4670004.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe4670004 new csr5=0xe466.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe466 new csr5=0xe466.
eth0: exiting interrupt, csr5=0xe466.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe4670005 new csr5=0xe466.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe466 new csr5=0xe466.
eth0: exiting interrupt, csr5=0xe466.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe4670005 new csr5=0xe466.
eth0: interrupt csr5=0xe466 new csr5=0xe466.
eth0: exiting interrupt, csr5=0xe466.
Update your tulip driver to v0.91, and it will work just peachy with that
card. (didn't we just go over these soho cards last week?)
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
Your ifconfig shows no loop back device (an "lo" entry should show up in a ifconfig), is this the case, or did you leave out? Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Is this a mistype? Check 'ifconfig eth0' on Linux and 'winipcfg' on Windows to see what each thinks it's IP is. Yes that was a typo, the corrected numbers are Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.2 /etc/hosts 192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1 192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs 192.168.1.2 linux1 basement That first line should read: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost I fixed that else you'll find that some things break. Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400. tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11. Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'? Here it is: [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 [root@localhost alex]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Would I be correct in thinking that the 192.168.1.0 in the above destinations should be something else (line 192.168.1.1 ?) or am I completely off base? -- Alex -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
Brett Jones wrote: Your ifconfig shows no loop back device (an "lo" entry should show up in a ifconfig), is this the case, or did you leave out? By appending 'eth0' to the end of the ifconfig command, you specify that you only want information for that interface. Here it is: [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: On a linux terminal, start a 'ping 192.168.1.2'. Then switch terminals and run did taht and it's pinging away happily tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output [root@localhost alex]# tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output tcpdump: listening on eth0 that is all that happens, no output in tcpdump-output file (empty) but I get this when tcpdump is stopped by a ctl-c 0 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel Then mail a good portion of the tcpdump-output file to the list. One other thing, I seem to remember seeing something in your original log messages about the card being put into 100Tx mode. Is the Windows side also 100Mb? I believe so. Everything runs at 100Mb while both systems are in windows. -- Alex
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 05:26:54PM -0500, Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: On a linux terminal, start a 'ping 192.168.1.2'. Then switch terminals and run did taht and it's pinging away happily tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output [root@localhost alex]# tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output tcpdump: listening on eth0 that is all that happens, no output in tcpdump-output file (empty) but I get this when tcpdump is stopped by a ctl-c 0 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel Okay, looks like the driver is bad. There was another message on the list saying that there is a known problem with the shipped driver and the SOHOware card. Check the archives at the Mandrake website for resolution. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
I just got a home lan set up (sort of anyway)
Everything works fine when all boxes are running under win98.
However when both machines are running different os's (Linux/WIn98 or
Win98/Linux) combos (both are dual boot), neither machine can ping the other.
I read the ethernet howto and I think I am more confused than when I started.
All I want to do (for now) is get the 2 boxes to be able to ping one another.
This is the setup so far
Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1
Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1
Everything is connected together with the "SOHOWare 10/100 Network Starter Kit"
(picked up at a computer flea market for $45. It says Linux is supported on the
box, and includes the tulip driver). And the card seems to be recoginized while
booting.
I have included a few files/messages along with this post. I might be just
looking in the wrong place as it's been one heck of a crazy day.
The only thing I can think of is that I need to do something special to
configure the hub. If so, where can I find the information?
/etc/hosts
192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1
192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs
192.168.1.2 linux1 basement
/etc/conf/modules
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias sound sb
pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1
options opl3 io=0x388
alias midi awe_wave
post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
alias eth0 tulip
options tulip options=0 debug=6
demsg sez
Linux version 2.2.13-7mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version pgcc-2.91.66
19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Wed Oct 20 22:13:44 EDT 1999
Detected 463917907 Hz processor.
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 462.03 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127688k/131072k available (1072k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1544k data,
60k init)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb450
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC AC28400R, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD102AA, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ATAPI 44X CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: PHILIPS PCA460RW, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: WDC AC28400R, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
hdb: WDC WD102AA, 9787MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb5 hdb6 hdb7
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: PHILIPS Model: PCA460RW Rev: 1.0f
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -1)
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 4.16 detected OK (220)
SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM512k)
Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400.
tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11.
read_eeprom:
8000 f8c6 9794
[newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
"Alex" == Alex V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Alex All I want to do (for now) is get the 2 boxes to be able to Alex ping one another. This is the setup so far Alex Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - Alex linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 [snip] Is this a typo? You have two machines with identical IP numbers? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-22mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 30 Feria
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
Check out this site. It's very helpful. http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/index.html Seve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 10:56:02PM -0400, Alex V Flinsch wrote: I just got a home lan set up (sort of anyway) Everything works fine when all boxes are running under win98. I just want to say upfront that you've done an excellent job of including the information that we'll need to start fixing this problem! It's not often that we get this much (and useful) output. Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Is this a mistype? Check 'ifconfig eth0' on Linux and 'winipcfg' on Windows to see what each thinks it's IP is. /etc/hosts 192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1 192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs 192.168.1.2 linux1 basement That first line should read: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost else you'll find that some things break. Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400. tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11. Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'? Thanks! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
