I have decided to install something unixish on an old 486/33 which just sits in the lab, which has a crashed MSwin311 installation and no one uses it. I don't have much info on hardware but I've figured out most of it. The network card has `SMC' printed on it so I choose the first SMC driver (I think its called `ultra') and it detects the network card at 0x220 IRQ 10.
I installed hamm and it went very smoothly to just after the base disks unpacking, where the machine locked up. Or at least I think it locked up, it just sat silently with no `dialog box' on screen and appearently did nothing for ten minutes, so I rebooted. I think this was the `configuring modules' phase of installation. I just skipped this step and went on with the configuration and installation of LILO. Now I can't get networking to actually work. I can't ping anything except the loopback (127.0.0.1) and my own IP address. Does the latter mean that my network card works or does the packet never leave the machine? `route' displays: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface localnet * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 2 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 1 lo default <correct> 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0 Where `<correct>' is the correct IP of my gateway (I choose not to write it down here of various reasons). It takes rather long time before the third entry shows up, not minutes perhaps but many seconds. What does the flags, metric, ref and use columns mean? I've compared the values with other working installations so I suppose they are correct. `ifconfig eth0' has the right IP, Bcast and Netmask -- but the wrong base IO address. It says 0x230 and the module when loaded says 0x220. However, when I try `ifconfig eth0 io_addr 0x220' it answers `SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported'. How do I proceed to locate the actual problem? (I mean: how do I find out if the hardware is malfunctioning, if the module doesn't work with my card or if there's a configuration problem?) // Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
