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Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> and "route"  shows only one entry: 192.168.1.0
> 
>    Shouldn't this be 192.168.1.1 ? 

No, 192.168.1.0 is fine.  But there should also be a 
route shown for lo (loopback).  This all comes back
to the rc.inet1 problem.  That file sets up lo:
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ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo
---------------------------------------------
Looks like you need all of that to get ethernet
to work.  

> I managed to get BL3 onto this network

If you look in /etc/rc in BL3, you will see:
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ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo
---------------------------------------------
It's the usual thing to do (at least in Slackware),
but I didn't realize (until now) how crucial it is.

Cheers,
Steven