Hello all,

I've been finding myself on here asking more questions than I imagined I would.

I've been messing around with some differnt distros trying to figure them out a bit. All of them worked, just like it did before I started this mess.

I was running slackware and deceided to run it again after it all. I've installed it about 5 times in the last two weeks and never before have I had this problem.

Usually I just run netconfig and all is well. I even tried manually editing the rc.inet.conf file to no avail.

I cant get on the internet. Cant get a ip, cant ping out, cant get anything I need to figure this out. Its pretty frustrating.

I can ping my local address and that's fine. I just cant get my ip address and connected.

I feel like such a newb, can someone please tell me if and what it is that I should look for to find out if maybe I'm missing a file / protocol or something.

Btw, this is slackware 10.2, and my internet was working on it just prior to the fresh install.

I'm about to just reinstall it, with a fresh copy and all. But I don't really think that is totaly nessacary.

Thanks for any help,

charlie r

Is the correct module (driver) loaded?

What does ifconfig print out?

What does route -en print out?

What does /etc/resolv.conf have?

If you are using DHCP to get the gateway address, DNS addreses, and assigning an IP address, you may forgot to install the dhcp utilities.

The following IP addresses tests your internet connection with out any entries in /etc/resolv.conf.
Google IP address is 64.233.167.99
Linux Questions.org IP address is 64.179.4.149