HPNA Network

[Guest bmacd]

My basic question is this: I have installed drivers for HPNA network cards and now Mandrake 9.0 recognizes the card on my machine. I thought at this point I could at least ping another computer on my network. When I do this, it times out. I can't ping from the other direction to this Linux machine.

 

Details:

I have two computers networked with HPNA Broadcom cards. Windows XP Home is the main client with Mandrake as a dual boot. It has a built in LAN card, the HPNA card, and a NIC for a laptop computer. The windows environment uses DHCP to assign IP addresses to the other computers. The other computer using the HPNA card is winme. Al computers share a DSL connection through the XP box.

When I boot to linux, the winme machine retains its IP address assigned when windows was running. After compiling and installing the drivers for HPNA (see http://home.eznet.net/~rlmsmw/hpna/ ) I am not able to ping anything except myself.

 

Do I need to install Sambo to ping?

 

Another question. What exactly is my ip address? 10.0.0.10, or 192.168.1.1 and I know I get another IP address from my ISP when I sign on.

 

 

 

Here are my ifconfg file and route -n results:

ethO is the onboard LAN, and eth1 is the Broadcom HPNA card.

 

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:09:EF:A1:24

inet addr:10.0.0.10 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

RX bytes:14787 (14.4 Kb) TX bytes:5177 (5.0 Kb)

Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd400

 

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B7:0D:AB:67

inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:510 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

RX bytes:24480 (23.9 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000

 

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:1100 (1.0 Kb) TX bytes:1100 (1.0 Kb)

 

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol

inet addr:64.252.39.27 P-t-P:64.252.32.1 Mask:255.255.255.255

UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1

RX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:3

RX bytes:11847 (11.5 Kb) TX bytes:3263 (3.1 Kb)

 

Kernel IP routing table

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface

64.252.32.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0

10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1

127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

0.0.0.0 64.252.32.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0

[Guest bmacd]

Well, here I am responding to my own posts. My first post was probably too much reading for anybody to get through.

 

I made progress. I can now PING between the two computers on my network. What I thiink did the trick was changing my IP addresses.

 

Host LAN FROM 10.0.0.10 TO 192.168.0.1

Host HPNA FROM 192.168.1.1 TO 192.168.0.2

Client (WinMe) HPNA FROM 192.168.0.112 TO 192.168.0.112 (no change)

all are under the 255.255.255.0 subnet.

 

I changed from the Linux assinged 10.0.0.10 to the windows xp assignment. I did this because I dual boot windows and Linux. I would like to have the network available to either Windows or Linux. I coud have changed windows, but I am doing all my risk taking in Linux since windows is already up and running.