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I have currently installed Slackware 13.1 64bit version
on a laptop Acer computer. This computer is connected to
my cable service (comcast) modem via a dlink router. This
computer has linux and Windows 7 dual boot systems installed.
Initially I was able to connect to the internet with either
linux or Windows. Now I cannot get on the internet with
linux, but I can with windows.
I cannot even ping the address of my internet provider,
which I can obtain through windows 7 by running the
program ipconfig. When I ping the address, in linux,
it gives me the message that "network is unreachable"
I can ping it in windows 7. If I run on linux the program
ifconfig, it does not even show an ethernet, like it
does on my other computer connected to this network.
I set the thing up initially with netconfig and used DHCP.
As I said, initially it worked. I did not use this computer
for some time, and now it has the previously described
problems.
Where should I start, trying to run this down?
I have already done everything I can think of,
like powered things off, and reset the cable
modem etc.
I tried that ifconfig logged in as me then did the su
command and logged in as root, then ran
ifconfig eth0 up
it gave me the error message:
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device.
So I tried it using eth1 in case for some reason the
ether net card was not the first one, knowing that I
only had one network interface anyway. Same error message.
Next I logged all the way out, and logged in as root
and ran:
ifconfig eth0 up
same ERROR message.
Looking at the loaded modules, lsmod, I see that a bunch
of stuff is listed somehow connected to ath9k, like
this following that was in the list from lsmod.
You have two adapters, it appears your wireless is the one that has a driver loaded. Is this the one you want to use?
I don't know which driver/adapter I want to use. I would
guess that I don't want to use a wireless, since I am not
using a wireless network. This all is pretty puzzling
because of the fact that originally I was able to get
on the internet, and apparently I was using the correct
driver and adapter. The puzzling part is I have done
nothing that I know of to change it. The adapter still
works, obviously, because I can still get on the internet
in Windows.
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