[TriLUG] Network Issue on New Laptop

[Matt Pusateri]

On Fri, May 13, 2005 10:56 am, Ron Joffe said:
> On Friday 13 May 2005 10:50, Jason Tower wrote:
>> Ron Joffe wrote:
>> > On Friday 13 May 2005 07:48, Scott Chilcote wrote:
>> >>Ron Joffe wrote:
>> >>>I've got my hands on a new Dell 9300 Inspiron laptop. I'm having
>> some
>> >>>strange networking problems. OS is SLES-9.
>> >>>
>> >>>lspci lists the nic as :
>> >>>
>> >>>BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
>> >>>
>> >>>The module that was loaded (selected automatically) is b44. On
>> boot,
>> >>> eth0 is assigned a dhcp address, and the nameservers are
>> properly
>> >>> populated in /etc/resolv.conf. So from this I know I am getting
>> some
>> >>> connectivity.
>> >>>
>> >>>If I try to ping a device on my local subnet, I get:
>> >>>
>> >>>Destination Host Unreachable for a few hundred times


Is it possible the default route is not being set properly when using
this card?  Also can you get to anything outside your subnet?

Matt