The satellite installer left a few hours ago, my ancient laptop does internet at high speed, but I can't do it with the desktop.
Had the laptop at a friend's house years ago and got highspeed working, but the notes from then don't help.
When I type anything referring to eth0, a typical respone is
"interface not found or invalid".


Did pppoe-setup, finished OK.
Looked in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf, and it looks the same as the laptop, so can anyone tell what I did wrong?

This is a new re-install of 13.37

Are you using a Standalone DSL/Cable Modem or a DSL/Cable Modem with Integrated Router/Switch?

I don't know what kind of modem - it's a big thing with flashing blue lights and says XPLORNET on it.

Better question then...

Does your modem have Wi-Fi and about 4 Ethernet ports on the back of it?

No, it has only one unused port, and that's USB.

Okay you have a Standard (Brand X) DSL/Cable Modem... Good. Now let's see what else is going on...

I'm also guessing you are always switching the Ethernet cable between the laptop and the desktop, right?

Question - Did you run Slackware's netconfig to setup your networking and IP addressing functions (usually this is done during the installation)?

Yes, I knew to change from loopback.

Yes,and yes I knew to change from loopback.

Can you run and post the following results from each?

lspci

lsmod

ifconfig

Can't post that mass of text, but ifconfig starts with lo
then Link encap:local loopback etc.

lspci is almost all about AMD device and ATI Technologies.
MAybe you could tell me what to look for?

Why? It's what we need to help you.

There is no link between my desktop and my laptop, and my typing skill is not up to transcribing all that.

fyi here are the outputs, from this laptop running slackware-12 and with a good eth0.
I see nothing that would help on the desktop running slack-13.37

m# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 41)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller
root@host:/home/william# lsmod
Module Size Used by
radeon 144928 0
drm 137856 1 radeon
snd_seq_dummy 2464 0
snd_seq_oss 29792 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5980 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 47984 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 6088 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 37728 0
snd_mixer_oss 14300 1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6 243508 10
xt_tcpudp 2620 18
nf_conntrack_ipv4 12520 20
nf_defrag_ipv4 1532 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
xt_state 1756 20
ipt_REJECT 2780 4
xt_limit 1824 6
ipt_LOG 5344 6
nf_conntrack_ftp 6880 0
nf_conntrack 53844 3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state,nf_conntrack_ftp
iptable_filter 2268 1
ip_tables 10892 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 13280 6 xt_tcpudp,xt_state,ipt_REJECT,xt_limit,ipt_LOG,ip_tables
cpufreq_ondemand 6632 1
speedstep_lib 3840 0
acpi_cpufreq 7500 0
freq_table 3420 2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
lp 9316 0
fuse 54008 1
pcmcia 33772 0
ppdev 7200 0
snd_intel8x0 28696 1
snd_ac97_codec 100128 1 snd_intel8x0
yenta_socket 23848 2
rsrc_nonstatic 10876 1 yenta_socket
3c59x 39908 0
ac97_bus 1372 1 snd_ac97_codec
pcmcia_core 32016 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
parport_pc 24036 1
snd_pcm 68128 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
video 16492 0
dcdbas 7068 0
mii 4380 1 3c59x
rtc_cmos 10124 0
parport 30700 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
output 2396 1 video
rtc_core 15992 1 rtc_cmos
snd_timer 19108 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
rtc_lib 2332 1 rtc_core
thermal 15096 0
button 5708 0
snd 50820 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd _timer
battery 9856 0
processor 38600 3 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
thermal_sys 10756 3 video,thermal,processor
intel_agp 25628 1
soundcore 5824 1 snd
ac 3840 0
psmouse 41676 0
hwmon 2104 1 thermal_sys
snd_page_alloc 7972 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
agpgart 29256 2 drm,intel_agp
shpchp 31888 0
serio_raw 5024 0
evdev 9152 9
root@host:/home/william# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:5b:d9:fc:81
inet addr:198.254.206.190 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.224.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1
RX packets:101233 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
TX packets:53445 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:48468636 (46.2 MiB) TX bytes:5498383 (5.2 MiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xcc00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3668 (3.5 KiB) TX bytes:3668 (3.5 KiB)

I've assumed that during install all I have to do is netconfig, select for the dynamic high speed (dhcp? anyway the one immediately above loopback), finish the install as usual and reboot.
Then typing dhcpcd eth0 should be enough to connect.
Is there something else required?

try dhcpcd eth0 up

then test ping www.google.com

let us know how it works.