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I installed Slackware 10 and my network is not working. I can't acess the internet nor ping my router. My network works in both windows and fedora core 2 but no luck with slackware.
I have noticed a number of threads with similar problems but no real sollutions.
I am a newbie Linux user so I don't know a whole lot. But from what I read
OK, you need to add kernel support for your network card (which probably means recompiling the kernel from source - are you comfortable doing that?).
I would boot up Fedora and do the dmesg | grep eth0 again to find out what driver it is using, so you can make sure that option is enabled in the make *config.
I've never done it before but I will definatly try.
on fedora core 2 the driver is:
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter
eth0: network connection up using port A
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Well, good luck! Here is a nice guide as it can be a little too complicated to explain in a forum post The overall procedure is relatively painless, but you might make a few broken kernels as you find your way through the various options.
As an extra hint: always leave an option in your bootloader to boot with your previous kernel (even if it doesn't have network support, at least it boots, and you can use it to compile a working replacement).
As for what the network chip is its
Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LAN
So do you think i should recompile the kernel or is there another solution. The only thing with recompiling the kernel, my Lilo is on my master boot record so I haven't a clue about how I would go about editing it.
I think if you use "make bzlilo" instead of "make bzimage", the build process will fix lilo up for you, but it's not hard to do yourself. Just edit /etc/lilo.conf, copy your existing linux section, and modify the appropriate parts. Once that's done, run /sbin/lilo to update the MBR.
An alternative way to compiling your own kernel is to try and find a precompiled module for that Yukon driver that matches your kernel, but I find this is usually more trouble than just compiling it yourself.
Wow my solution turned out to be fairly easy. Thanks you guys for setting me on the right track. Turns out that the asus integrated network driver doesn't come with slackware.
I went to marvell.com and dled it. It was reall easy to install. So anyone else who has this problem thats what you should try.
So I'm currently in slackware
Oh and i'm still gona try recompiling my kernel cause thats something I've been wanting to do
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