3c900 Installation Problem

[William Pietri]

At 04:20 AM 11/6/99 , Goran Arbanas wrote:
>I apologize if this is not the right mailing list to send this question to,
>but if any you have a minute to look at this problem, I will be very
>thankful.
>[..]
>but when I try to "route add default gw 151.198.16.1", I get
>"SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable." message.
>[...]
>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:08:A9:E5:DB
>           inet addr:151.198.17.208  Bcast:151.198.17.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

This isn't a problem with your ethernet card. The problem, instead, is with 
the numbers you are trying to use. Your netmask (255.255.255.0), gateway 
(151.198.16.1) and ip address (151.198.17.208) don't match up, so the 
"Network is unreachable" message is proper behavior. Those numbers won't 
work with windows95/NT either, so you should check them against the sheet 
you got from Bell Atlantic during the installation.

This list is intended for issues relating specifically to a particular 
ethernet card driver. In the future if you're looking for an answer like 
this, try using Usenet news; one good place to do that is www.deja.com. 
Another way is to contact your local Linux User Group (LUG); they probably 
have a mailing list intended for general questions, and the folks in your 
local LUG will certainly know how to get Bell Atlantic's DSL offering 
working happily with Linux.

Good luck!