Weird Network Card problems - 2

[Ajit Warrier <unixajit yahoo com>]

Hi list,

Looks like I posted my email at a bad time (31st Dec
when the world does not want to think of problems!).
So I am posting it again. Hopefully I will get some
help this time around. Sorry for the re-posting.

I am facing a weird problem with my Network Card
(Xircom CBE-10/100). I have installed RH80 on an IBM
Thinkpad 600 laptop. During bootup, the card is not
detected - only lo is started. However, after booting,
when I do dmesg, I get to see this message as part of
the output -

eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 0xc4865000,
EEPROM not present, 00:4c:69:6e:75:79, IRQ 11.

Does this mean that the card has now been detected
after some other component has been loaded as part of
the boot process?

However, if I now do ifconfig I only get to see lo.
ifconfig -a shows eth0 too. So I then did - ifup eth0
and the system came back with the message 

/sbin/ifup: configuration for eth0 not found.

Usage: ifup <device name>

Assuming that I need to configure the card, I opened
System Settings > Network from the Gnome menu. eth0
does NOT show up in the list. SO I added it manually
as an Ethernet connection "DEC 21*40 and clones" type.
I set the IP address statically (one complication at a
time, right?).

The status of eth0 in the Network tool now shows eth0
as inactive. When I press activate, it gets activated.
Now ifconfig shows eth0 as well with the statically
assigned IP configuration.

This is where the problem starts (all the rest was
just a background so that you all know how I got
here). I can ping the IP address on eth0 but I cannot
ping any other IP on the network. The card is working
fine when I boot into the Windows 98 partition so the
cable and card are fine. The net mask is correct for
my network.

Where can the problem be? Why can I not ping the
internal network?

So anyway, being an MS junkie, I rebooted my system.
In the start up messages (BTW, is there a way I can
see the startup messages in a file? they scroll by too
fast), I see something like this when it tries to
bring eth0 up (lo comes up fine) - 

tulip device does not seem to be present, delaying...

Still, when I do ifconfig, eth0 shows up and the same
problem remains - can ping itself but not other
internal IPs.

Please help!

Ajit

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