broadband connection on linux
 

could anyone give me some advice on how to set up my broadband connection? im guessing i dont have my network card properly configured for linux, but im not sure. could someone help me out with setting this up? on the last distro i had, it configured it for me automatically, but im not so lucky this time! heh. if anyone could help this newbie out, i'd appreciate it. thanks!

What distro do you have now? Do you know what sort of network card it is?

im running slackware 11, and im not positive on the brand/model of card

Try running netconfig.

just type netconfig in the shell? (sorry for the obvious questions, i'll get it eventually)

Yeah, you'll need to be root though.

alright, i used netconfig under root to no avail. anything else i could try to set up the connection? when i open my browser and try to visit a page, it just gives me an unknown host error.

Can you show us what lspci says about your network card?

what about it? if you're looking for the ethernet controller part, it says it's a 3com

There are several 3Com kernel modules. If you run lsmod, is there anything listed that starts with "3c"?

Nic
 

If you don't mind opening the case you can take a good look at the NIC you can also find a serial-code on it, usually.

in lsmod, there is an entry that says 3c59x, used by 0, (unused). does that help you at all?

OK, so the module's loaded. If you run "ifconfig -a", you do have an eth0 right? Can you post the output here please.

ok, here's the response i got(i did my best, had to type it all out on a crappy keyboard.heh.)...

eth0

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:02:77:F5:94
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:792 frame:0
TX packets:279 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1920 (1.8 KiB) TX bytes:16740 (16.3 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1080

Good. Is your IP address assigned via DHCP? If so, you can just try "ifconfig eth0 up" and then "dhcpcd eth0". If you set your IP address manually, then try "ifconfig eth0 x.x.x.x" (where x.x.x.x is the IP address) and then try "ifconfig eth0 up".