is this pc to pc, or pc to hub to pc ? in the 1st case you need 1 cross cable
in the 2nd case you need 2 straight cables if you do not have the correct utp cable wiring, then you're network won't connect. One test is to ping (using the ip numbers) once the network is configured (ifconfig/route). another thing to check is that the routing is correct, and esp that the default route (though for a local install, all lan references local, standard netmask routing ought to be sufficient). -Greg On 12-Jan-2002 Jeff Ai wrote: > hello guys, i am having a problem installing RedHat > 7.2 using a PCMCIA network card (D-Link DFE660) on a > Compaq Armada laptop. > I have a linux desktop set up as a DHCP server and ftp > server (Mandrake 8.1) > I made the pcmcia boot disk and pcmcia driver disk. > boot from the disk is ok, so is the driver. Linux > detected my d-link card ok and asked me to config the > TCP/IP. > I selected using DHCP and from the syslog on the DHCP > server i can see that an IP has been assigned to the > laptop. However, the laptop did not give me any error > message nor did it allow me to select the network > installation methods (FTP, HTTP or NFS). > If i configure the TCP/IP using static > IP(192.168.0.250, MASK 255.255.255.0 no gateway, no > DNS), then choose install from FTP, it gives me that > error that could not connect the FTP server > (192.168.0.103 no message in the syslog off course). I > think those two machines are not networked. > > do you guys have any idea what is going on here? > > thanks a lot > > Jeff > > http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! > - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ You can release software that's good, software that's inexpensive, or software that's available on time. You can usually release software that has 2 of these 3 attributes -- but not all 3. | Greg Hosler [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
