Help setting up network adaptor

Ok, I have a DELL E310, i just installed Slackware 10.2 on it, that works perfectly but... the network adapter i dont know what happend... can some body tell me how to configure it, or how to set it up. Thanks

You might first post your computer setup and the type of network adaptor.

Thanks for the Replay, But i wish i could know that information, i am really new to this, im just learning how to use linux and thats the reason i just installed it, but is there another way to install/configure it?

See the slackware network config page.

Having said that For a Linux newbie I'd recommend Ubuntu over Slackware. It's mostly because I've not used slackware though. I'm sure there's a slackware-o-phile who can guide you. Anyone?

To find out what network hardware you have, try running this command from a terminal window:

lspci |grep -i net

Post the results here.

Ok, i tried to follow those instructions and it seems that they r useless, can it be configured in the KDE?????

03:08.0 Ethernet Controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controler (rev 04)

btw: Thanks for the Help guys!

Is there another line of output?

No, Thats everything.

anybody else around? who can help me?

moisedo,

When you used lspci | grep -i net
you should have seen one line for the network controller in addition to the line for the ethernet controller, i.e.:
00:09.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)
00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

This is a long shot, but you might want to look through
lspci | less
to make sure there is no network controller there missed by the grep filter.

If it is still not there, it appears slackware does not recognize your network controller. If you know what type it is, you should look on the web for documentation about using it with linux.

Also, you could try a different distro that is better at hardware detection. The simplest thing to do would be to try a live cd, like knoppix, to see if it has better luck recognizing your network controller. That way, you could at least see the name of the network controller in lspci. Then you could figure out how to use it with slackware.

Good luck!!!

You could try running the network card configuration utility again from the command line, just type:

netconfig

And follow the prompts. If that doesn't work you could try to do it manually,if you want to grab an ipaddress from a DHCP server you can edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file, look for this:

# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]=""
NETMASK[0]=""
USE_DHCP[0]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

And change to this:

# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]=""
NETMASK[0]=""
USE_DHCP[0]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

And to restart your network card, just type:

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart

You should now get your ipaddress automatically from the DHCP server.

Originally Posted by Valdis Grinbergs When you used lspci | grep -i net you should have seen one line for the network controller in addition to the line for the ethernet controller, i.e.: 00:09.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05) 00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

Not necessarily. I'm not sure s/he's trying to configure a wireless interface. To my knowledge the E310 is a Dimension Desktop so unless it was added I'm not sure it would have a wireless interface. In which case the one Intel Ethernet controller that moisedo said was there should be functional and have an interface.

Moisedo, just verify that it is an ethernet you're trying to set up and not a wireless. If ethernet is the case, then - as fotoguy posted - run the netconfig command as root to set it up. You have the option in netconfig to set up DHCP or a Static IP.

Good luck and post back if you're successful.

EDIT: I just saw your other post, moisedo and the piece of information there that would have been better here was that you're doing this through DHCP. The netconfig command should do you well. Refer to fotoguy's post.

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I've edited the thread title so that it reflects the problem.