--- Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
....and do insmod 3c5x9
Good grief! I did this and it showed the correct info. Strange, I thought, and proceeded to bring up the interface. This also suddenly is working. (hmmmmm) And eth0 is also showing in ifconfig.
In that case don't touch anything else. leave it and work out how todo a auto insmod on boot, a cludge but it'll work, that is all i have for my FA311.
With the 3c509 which I have all I did was putting it in and modprobe 3c509 and it went from there, I didn't touch the settings on the board and from the sound of things you wont need to.
All I can think is that when i ran modconf I did two things - deleted the dummy0 module and tried installing the 3c509, the latter which just brought up errors yesterday. Perhaps restarting the computer and having no dummy0 in place caused the eth0 mod to do whatever it needed to do properly?
I have found it good to stear clear of programs which are supposed to help make these things easier, as they invariably never do. All my hardware was done by learning what i had and doing a simple modprobe for each thing, when that worked I set it all in a script - rc.modules - which does it all for me.
Still not pinging anything on the network though. Pinging my own IP shows it is using loopback, and tcpdump then shows for trying to reach anything else on the network: 13:40:32.704186 eth0 > arp who-has jenny?TCL tell TRX850/TCL (0:a0:24:2:cf:26) 13:40:35.694822 lo > TRX850/TCL > TRX850/TCL: icmp: host jenny/TCL unreachable [tos 0xc0]
what does route -n give? it could be that you have the wrong routing configured and need the default route to be set to something else.
Does this mean anything to anyone? Heff! Heff! A hoffable herralump! Thanks, Jenny. PS. Next time I splash out on the netgear.
Very good idea. Very easy to configure. If you are willing to stretch to it get a 3com card, a PCI 3com card is the dogs danglies.
Thanks
D
PS call me if you need a hand.
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