can't connect to the network or even ping my gateway

From: Abelida Int'l (cw1_at_abelidaNOSPAM.com)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 04:05:06 GMT

i just got linux installed but can't connect to the network - i have my
machine
hooked up to my netgear router via a cable (don't think it supports wireless
and since i plan to use it as a server cable is fine anyway)

so wehn i booted up, it asked me to fill in my network info..
i answered 192.168.0.4 (.2 and .3 have been reserved by my other
windows machines). then used the default for network (192.168.0.0)
subnet mask 255.255.255.0, broadcast 192.168.0.255
and gateway (192.168.0.1) - this is confirmed in /etc/netenv

the light on my router lights up indicating a connection. but when i
browsed the router from my windows machine, at "attached devices",
it only shows my windows clients but NOT the linux machine. i cna't
even ping 192.168.0.1 from my linux machine.

ran the following commands:

/sbin/ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 3924 Metric: 1

/sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flasg Metric Ref Use Iface (nothing after this

cat /proc/net/dev
lo: 17764 342 0 0 0 0 0 0 17764 342 0 0
eth0: 0 across the line

uname -a
Linux zhongcang 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:35:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown

any ideas what i could do?

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