[plug] Network Woes

[Nigel Duff]

 Hi folks,
	I'm trying to setup a network between my main machine (RH5.1,
kernel 2.0.34) and one i have just upgraded. Both are using NE2000
compatible network cards(yes i know, but it was all i could afford at the
time). I am trying to do a net install from the other computer for RH6. I
put Win98 on it just so i could test pings. I then want to put Debian on
this machine, so i was hoping that i wouldn't have to play too much with
this machine at the moment. 

	Ok, so basically the machine can't talk to each other, pings time
out etc. I do the following to setup the card and route,

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0

/sbin/route -n gives

Kernel IP routing table
Destination  Gateway     Genmask             Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
203.59.xx.xxx  0.0.0.0   255.255.255.255 UH    0      0     0   ppp0
192.168.0.0    0.0.0.0   255.255.255.0   U     0      0     0   eth0
127.0.0.0      0.0.0.0   255.0.0.0       U     0      0     1   lo
0.0.0.0     203.59.xx.xxx   0.0.0.0      UG    0      0     12  ppp0

(as an aside, if i want to set this machine up as a gateway, do i just add 
route add default gw 203.59.xx.xxx eth0 ?  Which gives me a SIOCADDRT:
Invalid argument)

On boot up the BIOS reports the card as using IRQ 11. It also says the
serial card controller is using IRQ 11. Whoever cat /proc/interrupts says
only the network card is on that IRQ.

Here's my Dmesg.
caduceus kernel: ne2k-pci.c:v0.99L 2/7/98 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
caduceus kernel: ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029'
at I/O 0x6800, IRQ 11.
caduceus kernel: eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0x6800, IRQ 11, 00:40
:05:E5:27:40.

So, do i have an IRQ conflict? If so how do i change the IRQ's. Nothing in
the BIOS setup jumped out at me. Any ideas on what else it might be?

Apologies for the long post. Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Nigel