Hi all, First off, thanks to everyone who tried to help me last week (to no avail!) I'm re-posting in hopes of fresh ideas. I've got two boxes (I know the names are brutal): #1) Bill0 -> K62-266 Mandrake 7.2 (my web, mail, samba server) Works Great! It has two network cards (one for the cable modem, one that connects to....) #2) Bill1 -> Dual boot (Win98, Mandrake 7.2) When I'm in Win98 on Bill1, I can see the other box, surf, get POP mail etc. When I boot to Linux, I can't do anything involving the network (even tho it says [OK] when starting lo and eth0). Ping from Bill1 to Bill0 shows: PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 octets data sendto: Network is unreachable Ping from Bill0 to Bill1 sits until I ^C it then returns: 60 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss. I can ping in both directions when I'm in Win98 on Bill1. Things I've tried: 1) If I try: ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.253 I get an error: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable. 2) modprobe ne2k-pci yields Warning: The PCI Bios assigned IRQ0 to this PCI Ne2k card which is unlikely to work! You should use the PCI Bios setup to assign a valid IRQ line. In my Bios my IRQ's are shown as [AUTO]. Changing them to (ie.) 3,4,5,7 etc. doesn't seem to accomplish anything. I also tried disabling USB in the BIOS to no avail. So I'm stuck again!! Can anybody help me? TIA Bill.
