Yeah, I'm pretty sure I gave netconfig the right addresses, the gateway is 192.168.1.1 and the netmask is 255.255.255.0. How do I setup a default route? The only thing I did with the network when I installed slackware is run netconfig. Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 9:47 PM Subject: Re: Network card problems > Hi: > > OK, I'll assume you're giving the correct netmask and gateway addresses. > Are there routing rules being set up? Type route and you should see > something like this: > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > localnet * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > > If you're wanting to reach the net through this card, you'll also need a > default route. > > If this is all OK, what happens if you ping your router? do you get an > error message or does it just hang? If it hangs, it's probably something > like cabling or something. > > Geoff. > > > -- > Geoff Shang <gshang at uq.net.au> > ICQ number 43634701 > > Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! > http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
