Hi All,
running Slackware "slampp" 2.6.13.2 on Dell hardware. Booting off the install CD - the network stack always works fine. After installing the OS to the HD and rebooting - it works fine too (DHCP assigns all settings to eth0). Subsequent reboots make it so that an address cannot be picked up. Furthermore, after running netconfig and setting a static IP, it is not assigned.

I can ping 127.0.0.1 (loopback). When I try and ping the assigned address I get "connect: Network is unreachable".

Any help reallly appreciated! Its my rear end if this does not get fixed since I have four of these to setup and deploy!!!

Thanks,
Rich

What is the output of route? Anything network related from dmesg?

Do you have anything interesting in /var/log/messages?

After how many reboots (and after what time) you have the problem?

Thanks for replies!!! Good / bad news. Good News: I manually ifconfig'd the eth0 interface and I was able to ping the default gateway.

Seems like my problem could be resolved by finding the proper interface file and manually configuring.

Not sure why netconfig did not make the change the correct way. I guess I will start looking as to where to make those manual changes.

ANother bit of data - maybe I am confused but during the POST, I saw DHCPD hanging there trying to get an address still?

PS getting an answer to a post by strangers, there is something optimistic about it!

Mara - this is after the first reboot.