🚀 go-pugleaf

Alright, I'm trying to hook up a laptop to my main computer.  I thought it'd be
simple, but I'm stuck.. perhaps one of the networking masters that frequents
this list can help..

So, I've set up eth0 through the ifconfig and route commands, and on my machine
I've got :

ifconfig reads :
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:0C:C1:87:30
          inet addr:10.0.0.100  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1233 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1263 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:4 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:12 Base address:0x6800
          
route reads :
10.0.0.100      *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.1       *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 lo
10.0.0.0        *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo

Of course, on my laptop the main difference is that the IP is 10.0.0.101.  So,
all looks as it should to me.  But, when I try to ping my laptop nothing
happens (I can see the light on the cable going into the PCMCIA flashing).  I
can ping from my laptop to here (with times of about 1000ms), and when that's
happening I can ping from here to my laptop.   Any ideas as to what the problem
may be?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

-- 
Mike Grandin