ok i have slackware 10.1 running KDE..... im a total linux noob and this is my first time using linux lol

well after much fiddling around with stuff, i finaly got slackware installed and got logged in etc and i cant seem to use the internet.....

Im using a PCMCIA ethernet card and it HAS been detected, the light is on on the card and when i did a modprobe command (cand remember what it was) but it showed that my card had been detected and that everything was correct

but it just wont seem to work =/

(P.S when setting up, i chose the "loopback" option as recommended by the setup for users with dialup modems, no connection and PCMCIA cards)

any help would be much appreiciated

Run: /sbin/ifconfig | grep eth
If you see some output then your card is correctly detected.
What we need to know to help you is how do you connect...
Are you connecting to a router, to DSL (using PPPoE?), dial-up, cable?

Connected to router

oh and..... like i said, im new to linux (just installed, so been using it a few hours now rofl so please forgive the noobness)

"Run: /sbin/ifconfig | grep eth" - how would i go about doing that?

type /sbin/ifconfig | grep eth in console

OK i did the above and here was the outcome:

well logged in as root,

first i typed "/sbin/ifconfig grep eth" (i couldnt find the | key because its an american keyboard map for a UK keyboard, i know theres probably a commend to change that but .... oh well.... lol). anyway, the outcome of that was:

"eth Host name lookup failed"

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after that i tried a little something extra, i just typed "/sbin/ifconfig" which came up with:

"
Link encap: local loopback
Inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
UP loopback running MTU: 16436
RX packets:2 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0
TX packets:2 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0 collisons: 0
RX bytes: 100(100.0 b)
TX bytes: 100(100.0 b)
"

there....

now i think i shouldve not listened to what the setup recommended and chose to obtain info from DHCP (i think there was an option similar to that) as my router supports DHCP. - but im no expert.....

Any ideas?

run pkgtool, select run setup, choose network config, select yes for use dhcp
alternatively you can use netconfig, and go straight to network configuration

Thanks for all the help, worked great, internet is now up and running