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tedlegrand Offline

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Posted: June 05 2005,03:11

I am running two PC's with DSL. First one is a somewhat newer computer: AMD 1.4GHz. One this CPU, the network gets autoconfigered fine and I access internet through the router.

The problem is with my older computer: Pentium 100, 40MB ram

The network card is ISA and plug and play is disabled.
The card gets auto-config fine as NE2000.

For some unknown reason, I am not able to use DHCP. when I run netcardconfig and try to activate DHCP broadcast, it returns Operation failed.
However, I can set a fixed ip (192.168.0.3), and from my AMD, I can add this ip to the router. The router recognizes it, it finds my old pentiums HWaddr (00:E0:29:...)

But even with this link formed, I am not able to access internet, neither am I able to pign my router from the box.

Help would be appreciated.
Thanks

cbagger01

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Posted: June 05 2005,17:17

Perhaps you network mask and gateway are configured incorrectly on your Penium 100 box.

The usual netmask for a local router is

255.255.255.0

which means that your local computer network address range is:

192.168.0.x where x = 1 through 254

For all non-local traffic (Internet) is sent to your gateway address, which is your router's locad ip address, is usually:

192.168.0.1

or sometimes

192.168.0.254

Hopefully, this will help you to be able to send outgoing packets from your pentium box and have them go to the right place.

tedlegrand Offline

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Posted: June 05 2005,19:34

This is my router status:

I.P. Address: 192.168.0.1
Network Mask: 255.255.255.0
DHCP Server: ON
DHCP Start IP Address: 192.168.0.2
DHCP Finish IP Address: 192.168.0.51

I know I have my settings right because I m able to assign any fixed ip with my AMD box through netcardconfig.

Is it normal that my isa card is not able to use DHCP?

I<ve used this network card under win95 no problems.

cbagger01

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Posted: June 06 2005,02:32

DHCP is a protocol. It should not be limited by your choice of hardware.

From your description, you should be able to assign the following in netcardconfig:

static ip address: 192.168.0.52
network mask: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 192.168.0.1

and it should work.

Of course DHCP should also work too so I am scratching my head here.

Also, instead of using the netcardconfig from the menu, try this. Open an xterminal window and type:

sudo su
modprobe ne
netcardconfig
exit
exit

Also, booting with:

dsl noapic

might help too.