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Don't give them the same IP/subnet-addresses!
About the Linux-thing I don't know about... But your PC's should have
different addresses, else it is looking for itself!

Greetz,
RCy2k

Yuval <frankelr@bezeqint.net> schreef in berichtnieuws
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> Hi!
>
> I have two computers, one is 486 DX8, 16MB RAM, 1.2GB H.D running Windows
> '95 and Red Hat Linux 6.2 in dual boot, the other one is Pentium III
450Mhz,
> 64MB RAM, 8GB + 4GB H.D running Windows '95. both computers have a NE2000
> compatible (called "Edimax") netcard, the older one has an ISA netcard,
and
> the new one has a PCI card.
>
> I tried to connect them using a crosslinked  UTP cable, installed the
> correct driver under Windows '95 in both computers, installed TCP/IP
> protocol and defined an IP address(192.168.1.1 / 2) and a subnet mask
> (255.255.0.0) for both of them, and under Windows '95 they comunicate
fine.
>
> Under Linux, I installed a driver (what's called a module) by the guidance
> of someone from here... he instructed me to run through all the modules
> using the modprobe command until I don't get an error message, so that
what
> I did, I found that a module called 82596 isn't causing any error messages
> (does that mean it is the right one?), so I defined the same IP address
and
> subnet mask as I defined under Windows '95  using the ifconfig command,
and
> brought the eth0 interface up, and tried to ping the Windows '95 computer
> and ...   it didn't work, I tried to ping the Linux computer from the
> Windows '95 and it didn't work too...
>
>
> W H A T  D I D   I   D O   W R O N G ? ? ?
>
> Yuval.
> yuval124@hotmail.com
>
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