On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:48, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > However, the ping problem confuses me. > > I can ping myself 10.2.1.7) which tell me that the IP stack is working and > that the card's been recognised right? Verify that the host isn't dropping or not getting your pings for some reason, such as an intermediate gateway. > > I don't know what the broadcast ping proves though, and when I try to ping a > remote host, or from another box try to ping my laptop it doesn't work. > Surely, this is still an IP related issue. > > > 2) Is there another Linux box to check for configuration information? I don't know how 'skilled' you are with Linux so I assumed nominal knowledge. > How do you mean check the config? If you mean the IP settings, they're correct > and match all the other boxes I have. I did statr off with dhcp enabled, but > changed it to manual settings when that didn't work initially. > > If you mean card settings, then I can't help as I don't have another box with > a SIS900 card in. > > > > > > --- 10.2.0.0 ping statistics --- > > > 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms > > > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.228/0.250/0.263/0.015 ms, pipe 2 > > > [root@localhost root]# uname -a > > > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST > > > 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > [root@localhost root]# > > > [gary@gary gary]$ I suspect that there is something strange going on here. I do know when running RH6.2 I had to download and compile the SIS drivers from their web site. This would be the only option I see at this point. BTW the only module my modules.conf shows for this card is sis900. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
