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     i dont know why you are using such a netmask, but it really shouldnt
matter.  a few things could be wrong.  Make sure the ip addresses for both
computers are in the same subnet. ie: 255.255.0.0 means just the first 2
numbers have to be alike. as in 192.168.*.*  I have a feeling you may have
the wrong nic driver.  try to run /sbin/ifconfig -a and see if you get
errors on the eth0 interface.  If no packets are being transmitted, then you
have done something wrong.  If they are being transmitted, something is
misconfigured on one of your computers.

good luck
batrox@swbell.net

"Yuval" <frankelr@bezeqint.net> wrote in message
news:393b7e40@news.bezeqint.net...
> 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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