Debian install problems

[shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)]

> The network card is a plain NE2000 card.  Additionally, the route program
> locked up whenever I tried to run it to see what the routing table was.
> Had to interrupt it with Ctrl-C.
> 
> Basically, it refuses to speak with anything other than x.x.10.0 through
> x.x.10.6 machines in the network, and even those, just barely.  It won't
> even talk to the nameserver at x.x.10.21 or the gateway at x.x.1.3.

That's why route "locked up", because it was trying to resolve
hostnames.  It would have worked very slowly, or you could use route -n.
-- 
Shields, CrossLink.