Hello everyone
I have a small problem (or a big one> ). I installed Slackware. Everything went fine until I installed network support (netconfig). Then i noticed that slackware took a LOT more to boot and it wasn't as fast an flexible as it was before. Can you help me? And while i'm here, can you tell me how can i change the fonts mozilla uses (the ones it uses right now just suck when compared to the ttf windows uses). Thanks in advance.

For fonts, have a look at http://www.homepages.lu/pu/beautiful.html.
For the network problem, do you get your IP via DHCP?

Yup, i chose DHCP, can it be a problem?

Do you have a DHCP server who responds?
What is the output of "ifconfig -a", run as user root?

Weeel, the problem is that right now what you wrote there ("ifconfig -a") is quite confusing to me because I'm a newbie with Linux (I probably shouldn't have chose Slackware to start learning Linux, but.. I heard it is a good distribution). Now, tell me what should i do? (right now I'm in Windows). thanks

Hi there, at the command prompt type in

/sbin/ifconfig -a

then post your output on here and we can see whats happening there, ok. Either that as the previous post suggests run that command as root user just to get the output.

root@82:~# /sbin/ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:9C:F2:EE
inet addr:82.76.204.195 Bcast:82.76.207.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2651 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:605 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:309247 (301.9 Kb) TX bytes:78913 (77.0 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

(pls don't hack my computer i this helps you to do such a thing thx)
and please recommend me another browser than Konqueror or Firefox. thx

OK seems like your computer is getting an ip address. Can you ping external websites, e.g. google or yahoo or something.

ping -c4 www.google.com

Type that in and see that you get a response from google. Failing that type

netstat -rn

check your kernel routing table to see that you have a default gateway setup.

Ok, NOW i'm in Linux, so the network works correctly, i was just wondering about the boot.. it takes LONGER than before

check your boot messages - does it seem to hang at one point for a long time?

It hangs on on one with smth.. mail... can i disable that one?

if its checking mail thats hanging it you can edit /etc/login.defs:

just set

MAIL_CHECK_ENAB no