ok... this has been a major problem with me for the past... week or so, and i was going to e-mail slack directly, but i decided to come get some help here... hopefully. i'd first like to say that if my grammar, spelling, and punctuation bother you, it is after 5:30 am here, and i've already worked and have yet to go to sleep, as i have been up with this issue... so i'd like to apologize ahead of time if it bothers you. my brain is not firing on all 8...

so... i install slack 10 in place of different distros of linux which have all seemed to fail the install-test on my vaio laptop (model PCG-FXA49). everything runs great; i see 'net and everything... install swaret and got everything chuggin along but we lost power (thank you battery) and i shut the computer down to save the battery and the computer from a crash due to lack of power (battery is old, so not much juice). well... when it reboots, it hung on /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug. ok... so i reboot it... same place, same time, no hope in sight. i figure this is just a repeat of my previous experiences, so i format it (this time into two partitions: 1 for XP so my bf can use it, and the other for Slack 10, this time with selecting not to boot rc.hotplug) and start over. everything boots up nice and clean and i chmod rc.hotplug to boot up again (this time with intel8x0m in /etc/hotplug/blacklist which i am told will fix the issue, and apparently it does), which is followed by a reboot. now... this is where it gets weird. i go to access the internet (like i did before after the first install of slack 10) and it doesn't work... nothing. ok, fine. i run netconfig and i set it up using my ip as 192.168.0.100 and my dns/gateway as 192.168.0.1. doesn't work. i change up the settings and try again... no go. run netconfig with dhcp this time and just hit enter, and it doesn't work, nor does dhcp with entering 'Domain'. fine fine... i figure that the eth0 is not being recognized, so i run ifconfig and it prints out that, low and behold, eth0 IS seeing the internet, it HAS an ip (which is the right one), it HAS a bcast point, and all of this up and running 100% perfect... so it says. GREAT i think; fly over to the router, and plug the laptop directly into the modem, and go back to type in the settings (note: there is no username/password so adsl-* doesn't work... this is a static ip dsl) into netconfig and... denied. deciding to poke around, i go to ping www_yahoo_com (unreachable) and then an ip inside of my isp's network and... i get a reply. i can *actually* ping ips inside of my isp's network... though i can *not* access anything outside of it. trying once more through the router method, i get nothing... access is refused at the router if i type in 192.168.0.1 into mozilla, and it says that network connection is bad if i try to ping it.

all of this has me confused, extremely tired, and brain dead... please, i'd like some more help... a fellow slack person who does the sysadmin'ing at my isp is clueless, as well, over what to do, and now i'm asking all of you before i go to slack. this is just so confusing to me... thanks for your help and, once again, extremely sorry for my bad grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and what not... i'm just tired/drained from this, work, and lack of sleep

as i understood, first you tryed without the router and you got the right ip address when you did ifconfig. after you connected it back to the router did you try rebooting?

because the router will have to assign you the new ip address (usually 192.168.0.X)

good luck

no

it went like this...

start up hotplug and make it bootable

reboot (connected to router)

messing around with ip settings in the netconfig i get frustratrated and typed ifconfig (while still connected to the router; left that part out... i tried it while connected to router and while not; both cases turned up the same thing; that it was working and what not)... this is what led me to disconnect the cable from the router and into the back of the modem... plugged the proper info into the netconfig, but did not get proper results... after a little bit of messing around, i just plugged it back into the router and (now, after typing the first post on my desktop) rebooted into XP to have internet working as normal...

it is just boggling my mind...

however... one note of interest... i ONLY tested pinging the intra-isp ip's while connected directly to the modem, but not while behind the router...

my network looks like this

my laptop & my desktop & aury's desktop --router -- modem -- linux box at ISP -- god and stuff, or whatever

it seems that my laptop (when going directly to the modem) will be able to send out info to the linux box at the ISP and ping internally to the other computers on the network... but i'm unable to even ping the router while i am connected to it (even after booting up with it)... that is just... my brain hurts

hmm,

well this is how i have it


4M cable connection
-------------------|
-------------------|
-----------------router
-------------------|
|------------------|------------------|
win2000 --- slack-laptop --- slack-server


all i needed to do in the beginning for my laptop was to connect it to the router while the laptop power is down. boot it up and configure netconfig. reboot and internet was up. i have dynamic ip though so i configured netconfig as dynamic.
now when i want to connect my laptop to the net, i just plug it in, boot laptop and i got internet.

i don't know your router so instead of testing with pinging places, try testing with connecting to a site with mozilla.


good luck