internet not working

marlor · 06-19-2004, 01:40 PM

hi guys

on my laptop i got a Realtek Rhine II fast ethernet adapter

1. how can i know that my network card works with standart slack install?

2. i got a dynamic IP, but the "netconfig" command seems to be for static, because it doesn't ask me if i have dynamic.

thanks in advance

bruno buys · 06-19-2004, 02:01 PM

You have an IP but you can't network? Can you ping any machine?

marlor · 06-19-2004, 02:46 PM

no,

internet doesn't work on linux at the moment, booted my windows partition now to come online.

how can i set up my network card which is described in my first post, and how can i make it that slack realises that it is dynamic?

thank (me noob)

bruno buys · 06-19-2004, 02:58 PM

I'm not a slack user, but this what I would try:
In the console:
lspci (will show you some info on pci devices, you can search your card there. I'm guessing slack knows about your card and that this is not the problem).

ifconfig (will show you network info, if you can find an IP value, its good!).

ifdown eth0 (will bring the interface down, allowing you to up it again, and run the dhcp client. If you connection is dynamic, its dhcp, right?).

ifup eth0 (will bring it up, and try to grab ip by dhcp).

If all this work, you have to figure a way to insert this in the boot process, and you're done.

carboncopy · 06-20-2004, 04:13 AM

netconfig DOES ask you for dynamic IP settings. It is DHCP.

Anyhow, you can edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

Code:

# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
#
# This file contains the configuration settings for network interfaces.
# If USE_DHCP[interface] is set to "yes", this overrides any other settings.
# If you don't have an interface, leave the settings null ("").

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

This is for Slackware 9.1 and later. See the USE_DHCP[0]="yes"
Yours should look like that.

AND if your Slackware installation is still using the stock-kernel. Then you should have the eth0 working already.

The steps you should do are:

1. Boot-up Slackware (9.1 or later)
2. Login as root
3. cd /etc/rc.d
4. use your favourite text editor to edit the rc.inet1.conf file to the example above.
5. still in /etc/rc.d -- > ./rc.inet1 stop and then ./rc.inet1 start
you should be able to see your MAC address and your DHCP address.
6. ifconfig to double check.
ifconfig will show your eth1 and some thing like :

Code:

root@bigmac:/etc/rc.d# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:xx:75:AD:xx:3x
          inet addr:10.x.x.xx  Bcast:10.5.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7407208 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:243 frame:0
          TX packets:8652779 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:260942 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1206018170 (1150.1 Mb)  TX bytes:3440706136 (3281.3 Mb)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0xac00

I have edited the info above for safety purposes.

marlor · 06-20-2004, 06:13 AM

ok, this problem is solved, slack did notice my card afterall, and with "netconfig" i could manage to set it up.

with dynamic i ment dhcp

thanks for the effort people