[plug] Network Woes

[Mim M]

You can change the IRQ during setup of the network.......
----- Original Message -----
From: Nigel Duff <peregrin at iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, 17 May 1999 1:00
Subject: [plug] Network Woes


>
>  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
>
>