Hi Victor. I have network access. There are two things that I don't have as of yet. 1 of them is Dns, and the other is I don't have it set to configure the interfaces with pump on start-up. Does anyone know how I could go about doing this? Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: Victor Tsaran <tsar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 9:15 PM Subject: Re: question > Hi, Igor! > Loopback interface will work regardless of whether your physical network > card working or not. Loopback interface, 127.0.0.1, is present in Linux by > default. So your card is not working properly if it is not detected by > ifconfig. > Vic > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at yahoo.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:24 AM > Subject: Re: question > > > > Hi Victer. The card is actually recognized, and the > > module seems to load fine. In fact, when I do > > ifconfig, I get status messages. Something like this: > > Loopback=127.0.0.1. Netmask=255.255.0.0. Mtu=16300. > > Then it goes on to display packet stats. At least I > > got an mtu reading that wasn't 0, so I believe that > > this could indicate that the interface is functioning. > > Is this so? By the way, to answer your question on the > > SMC cards, I actually have a Linksys card that uses > > the tulip module. > > What I'm planning to do something like ifconfig eth0 > > -dhcp to configure the interface based on dhcp. Also, > > sorry for the long response time, its just that mail > > over here was down for about two days, and its back > > up. -I have also noticed an interesting atribute in > > kernel 2.4.18. Every time -I press the del key, > > dec-talk says numlock on. COuld this have to do with > > an incorrect keymap being loaded at boot time? Thanks > > in advance!- Victor Tsaran <tsar at sylaba.poznan.pl> > > wrote: > > > Hi, Igor! > > > Is there a possibility that your netcard module > > > conflicts with another > > > module which kicks it out? Can you do a full "dmesg" > > > trace and see what > > > happens there? Also, if I remember correctly, > > > tulip.o module was for SMC > > > cards, right? If yes, then I think there was some > > > update to that module last > > > year. But that might not apply to you since you are > > > using the newest kernel, > > > is that so? > > > Also, I think that your card might be recognized by > > > the hardware detection > > > tool, but the module itself does not load. Perhaps > > > you should check your > > > /etc/modules.conf or edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to > > > have your module load > > > at startup. > > > Vic > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage > > http://sports.yahoo.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
