[ale] Network setup

[rgpai at vsnl.com (Rajani Pai)]

I've set up a network with 2 machines. Each machine 
has??an ethernet card(eth8029) and they are connected by means of a cable. 
Now this setup works fine on Windows, but each machine cannot detect the other 
in Linux. I've setup the device drivers and the devices are initialised. When I 
try to ping the other machine it says "Destination host unreachable" 

Could some one help me out on this?
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Thanks,
Rajani
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