Connecting to a Windows Network problem.

BrandonOBrien

Hey,
I have a slight problem... I'll explain my setup and then the problem.

I live in an apartment that i share with one other person. He has the cable modem and a wireless router in his room. I have a wireless card installed in my Windows PC. I also have my Gentoo box in my room with me. What I'm doing now is running a 100 foot ethernet cable from the router in his room to my gentoo box to get the internet.

The problem I'm running into is trying to use a network hub to get internet to my gentoo box via my windows machine.

We've got it working between 2 windows machines, but when i plug in the cable to the linux box, the internet doesnt kick on.

Is there documentation somewhere about how to deal with this? I did some searching but came up empty handed. can anyone help?

nobspangle · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

post abit of info about your IP address configuration, which machines are running dhcp servers etc.

BrandonOBrien · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

BrandonOBrien · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject:

scratch that, it still doesn't work

andrewy · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 602

it's probably a configuration issue, what NIC are you using? is the driver compiled into the kernel, or (if it's built as a module) loaded?
have you edited /etc/conf.d/net.eth0?
have you started net.eth0? (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start)

BrandonOBrien · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject:

ok, we got it for real this time... it was a problem with the network bridge

thanks everyone