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I just installed the OS and I am trying to get the NIC working. I have configured the card to have a valid public IP, gateway, and DNS settings. I don't expect the machine to get out on the Internet because the DNS entries for the PC are pending. However, shouldn't I be able to ping the gateway, DNS servers, and my own address?
I also have some questions about linuxconf/basic host configuration. Would it help to manually assign an IRQ and an I/O port? How about the Kernel module?
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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Without DNS you should be able to ping anything by IP address. Sorry, I really can't help with the linuxconf questions. I have only used it once and it was about a year ago. Someone else should be able to help though.
When ever submitting a question in this forum it is a wery good idea to tell which type of hardware you are having a problem with, and which Linux Distribution you are using.
But back to you'r question:
If you'r having a pci network device (And linux is able to find it during install)it should not be nessecery to manualy configure IRQ and I/O for it.
If you'r net device is an ISA card it might be possible that you have to do so.
B.t.w are you able to ping you'r own machine????
Hope this could solve some of you'r problems
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