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Cant connect to the internet through router in BeOS!

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spamsk8r

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I just set up a BeOS machine with revision 5 on it, and I installed a realtek 10/100 NIC, and also installed the drivers for the NIC. It recognizes the NIC, but when I tell it to automatically get IP via DHCP, which is broadcast by my router, it just sets the IP to 0.0.0.0. So I tried setting the IP manually to 192.168.123.101, which is within the range allotted by the router, but once again it would not let me access the internet nor any of the other machines. Does anyone have any information that could help me out?

TIA,
Geoff
 
Did you set a default gateway? What do you mean it cant access other machines on your network? Can you ping ip addresses? Will those crappy NAT machines let you set manual ips to one machine? Are you sure that ip hasnt been used already?
 
Yeah, I set the default gateway to 255.255.255.0, which is what my windows machines are set to. I tried to ping the other computers by their IP addresses, like my main windows computer has a local IP of 192.168.123.125, and i pinged that and it said cannot contact network. I'm positive that the IP hasn't been used, since I only have 2 computers on the network (My windows one and the BeOS one), and I honestly don't know if the router will let me set manual IP to just one machine, maybe I should turn of the DHCP server and just configure each machine independently?

 


<< Yeah, I set the default gateway to 255.255.255.0, >>



That should be subnet mask, not default gateway.



<< which is what my windows machines are set to. I tried to ping the other computers by their IP addresses, like my main windows computer has a local IP of 192.168.123.125, and i pinged that and it said cannot contact network. I'm positive that the IP hasn't been used, since I only have 2 computers on the network (My windows one and the BeOS one), and I honestly don't know if the router will let me set manual IP to just one machine, maybe I should turn of the DHCP server and just configure each machine independently? >>



I would try it. Also make sure the cable is good.
 


<< Yeah, I set the default gateway to 255.255.255.0, which is what my windows machines are set to. I tried to ping the other computers by their IP addresses, like my main windows computer has a local IP of 192.168.123.125, and i pinged that and it said cannot contact network. I'm positive that the IP hasn't been used, since I only have 2 computers on the network (My windows one and the BeOS one), and I honestly don't know if the router will let me set manual IP to just one machine, maybe I should turn of the DHCP server and just configure each machine independently? >>


i think you might have that mixed up, 255.255.255.0 is usually your netmask. the default gateway should be another 192.168.x.x address.
 
Yeah, you guys are right, I mixed em up in my head, the subnet mask was 255.255.255.0 and the gateway was my router's IP address, which is 198.168.123.254, but i didn't mix it up when i was setting it 🙂

EDIT Never mind, I figured out that the ethernet card i was using was bad (tried it in win2k and couldnt get it to work either)
 
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