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I'm trying to connect to my school's LAN with my laptop (dual boot Slack 10.2 and WinXP) and... it's not working. And I don't know why. It works under Windows, and from home (I have DSL there), the connection "just worked".
I can ping localhost, but if I try anything remote, I get "Network is unreachable." Any suggestions? I know ~nothing about networking; it all seems like black magic to me, so thanks a lot for your help.
I can give the output of lsmod, too, though I have to type all this in by hand, so if there are only a few lines that are helpful, I'd rather try to reproduce only those. (And sorry if there are typos...)
I asked for the output of 'uname -a' because a common mistake is to forget th install the modules for the 2.6 kernel.
Anyway have a look at the output of 'lsmod' and see if you have an entry for e100. This is the module (read driver in windows terms) for your network adaptor.
Thats good, they are a newer version of the module.
As root run 'netconfig' this should ask you some question and set up your network. When it asks about your IP address choose to set up by DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol)
I'm a little hesitant to run netconfig because of the problem here, which I never resolved. I'm pretty sure that it's set up to get an IP address via DHCP, though.
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