Hooray! Nathan sent me in the right direction and I have internet on the card. It was the MAC address problem, powering down the wireless interface took care of it. As it's in anther part of the building I didn't do that before. Thanks Nathan. Couldn't have got this together without this list.
Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq -----Original Message----- From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 10:45 AM To: Debian-User Subject: Re: net card nightmare On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 10:24:13AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > i've finally decided that I can't fix this network card problem. > I have been able to install two cards, either will work on the > internal network by reassigning the variables, but neither will > work on the wireless internet feed. I had the brilliant thought > last night that it was due to the wireless feed bing 10base, so > I install a 10base card this morning. I brought it up in the > internal network, worked fine, changed the parameters to those of > the internet feed, no luck. All the info in ifconfig os definately > correct, but I can't ping the router. When I connect the feed to > the NT box with the same IP info, it works fine. > Any ideas? Yeah. First, break your lines at 70 characters or less. Netiquette and all that. Second, have you power cycled the wireless internet feed box? Many such devices recognise a MAC address and won't talk to other MAC addresses until they "forget" what they learned (and generally cycling power is a good way to do that). Perhaps the feed has learned your NT box's MAC. Other than that, I don't have any ideas. I've missed the beginning of this thread so I apologise if I missed this info already. It would be helpful to know a few things: o IP addresses involved o hardware involved (the feed box, the network cards) o dmesg output after you load network card modules etc. HTH, -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
