2 macs and a linux on a LAN

[Mitchell Patenaude]

Hi John, in addition to the very good advice from dugan, I see one thing
that concerns me:

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:31:48AM +0100, John F. Kohler wrote:
[...]
> Linux then detected the card on rebooting, and I could then
> perform a successful "insmod"
> to get the kernel (2.2.14-5.0) to recognize the card and
> LAN.

You shouldn't have to call insmod or modprobe explicitly, it should
happen automagically during the boot process. All that stuff we did 
before was just for diagnostic purposes.

I agree that your remaining problem is most likely either routing or 
DNS.  I thought that the gateway was configured when I was there, but
I could be mis-remembering, or it could have gotten clobbered.

A quick and simple test would be to try to ping a host outside your 
network with an explicit IP.  Try bolt.sonic.net (208.201.224.36), and
see if that works.  If so, then the problem is almost certainly DNS
and you'll need to populate the /etc/resolv.conf file, otherwise you'll
need to check your routing table.

Best of luck,
   -- Mitch