Re: new router, can't get out

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:21:26 +0000, Eben King rearranged some electrons to
form:

> OK, somebody give me a clue please. I replaced a USR8054 with a Netgear
> MR814v2 today. Both have four ethernet ports -- the USR has 10/100 ports,
> I believe the Netgear has 10 Mbps only. :-( Both have 802.11
> transmitters -- USR is b/g, Netgear is b only. All machines in the house
> except for mine can get on the net. Some are laptops connected by
> 802.11b, some are through a dumb hub daisy-chained off port 4, and some
> are wired. The router has the same address as the previous one,
> 192.168.1.25, so I shouldn't have to change anything on the computers.
>
> I own VMware, and it can't get out either, which leads me to think it's
> something about my NIC. According to the router's web-based config tool,
> the MAC address is not blocked (and that shouldn't affect VMware anyhow).
> My NIC uses the "8139too" driver in 2.4.22 .
>
> Does anybody know what might be wrong? Thanks.

This may be a long shot, but I had a situation a while back where I had to
set the NIC to "half-duplex only" to make it work.

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