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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:52:08 +1200
3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> > I can manually insmod rtl8139, and it appears in dmesg.
> 
> I assume by that you mean eth0 appears in dmesg.

     Yes.

> Until you see eth0 you should not do the next step.

   Understood.
 
> > I can ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.5 (or 7 or 77), and ifconfig 
> > shows it is OK with netmask at 255.255.255.0
> 
> That's positive.

   Agreed.  :)
 
> > route    gives me something different everytime !
> 
> How is that possible.  You execute route and get one
> result, and then execute route immediately and get
> something else???  That doesn't seem possible.

   Nor to me.

> 
> > route add default gw 192.168.1.1     gives the result:
> 
> Do not do "route add" until you can ping the address.
> I repeat:  first ping the address.  If ping works, then
> (and only then) do the "route add".

   OK.

> "route add default" is totally useless if you can't ping 
> the address.
> 
> ping is the first thing you must get working.  You said
> it was working yesterday.  You need to figure out why it
> is not working today.

    This morning, I booted from cold.

    insmod rtl8139

It showed up in dmesg.

    ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.77

    ifconfig -a     showed it had taken.

then:

    ping 192.168.1.1

there was a line to show the ping had been sent

there was a pause, then
   
neighbour table overflow
neighbour table overflow
neighbour table overflow

until I hit ctrl-c

    I am getting that message a lot now.   What does it mean ?



> Forget about rc.inet1 (for now).  Please re-read the step-by-step
> I gave you yesterday.  Insmod the card.  Give the card an address
> (using ifconfig).  Ping the router.  It is not complicated.  Do 
> not do the ifconfig until you are sure the insmod worked.  Do not 
> do the ping until you are sure the ifconfig worked.
> 
> We need to pinpoint exactly which step is failing.

    That was what I did this morning.  The ping failed.   I can see the 
lights flashing on the ADSL modem, but nothing is getting sent back to my 
computer.  Does the modem not know where to send the bounce ?
At this time of the morning, there is no other computer connected to the LAN.

FWIW: I fluked a net connection with BL2 once, and I don't know what made it 
work.
I haven't been able to get past a failed ping ever since.

    Has the kernel been damaged in some way ?  Should I get a fresh kernel ?

Regards,
        Ron

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Ron Clarke 
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