I'm installing the ZipSlack package of Slackware 9.1 and can't get my internet connection working, my network card apears to be working correctly but I cant get a ping off of anything, also my Cable modem doesn't report any activity form the PC while in Linux. Here's my stats:

uname -a:

Linux ElderOne 2.4.22 #23 Tue Sep 2 18:16:57 PDT 2003 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Route:

Kernel:
IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

//Edit: Can't get previous line to align right...

ifconfig eth0:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:1B:EF:D7
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1180 (1.1 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x320

Any info can help,

Thanx,
Aaron

I'd suggest running netconfig again ...

Your card is up, but doesn't have an IP
address... did you set it up manually?

Do you have dhcp?

As for the alignment:
put it in [ c o d e ] [ / c o d e ] statements,
that gives it a fixed font.


Cheers,
Tink

Thanx for the fas reply,

Tried that after setting up the card, made no difference...
Yeah, I had to disable PnP to get it working in Linux because it mounts it twice as both Eth0 and Eth1 niether of which working, read from another post that it's a comman problem and disabling PnP on the card fixes it, that brought me to where I am now...
Yup, well I'm assuming anyway, the server sets my IP and stuff in windows..
Thanx, I'll remember that next time

Thanx again,
Aaron

try 'dhcpcd' and see what happens. If it tells you it's already running just do 'killall dhcpcd' then 'dhcpcd'

Thanx I gave that a try, it lit up my activity light on my cable modem but seemed to do little otherwise. However I noticed that after running this when I did a ifconfig eth0 TX bytes jumped up but RX seemed to stay at zero, my guess is that under linux my network card is having a data receiving(or sending, but I think RX is receiving) problem, any ideas on how to correct this?

Thanx again,
Aaron

do you have any idea what your IP address was when it was working or at least the ip address range?
Do you know the first three octets?(12.225.141.0)

Are you just getting DHCP from your ISP or are do you have a router or gateway that is giving out DHCP to your internal network?

I can get me IP from windows because the network works fine there.
Yup, as said, from windows.
It's from the ISP I believe, unless my cable modem does some crazy stuff, nothing between my card and the modem but a cord =)

Oh so you only have one computer. Ok then. Well get the IP from windows and we'll set it manually in linux. It's not hard. Get the IP and we'll go from there.

K, I got the IP, what do I need to type in the command line in linux?
Also do I need any other info such as my Mask or Gateway?
I want to try and get everything down in as few reboots as possible, especially considering I have to turn PnP on/off between OS switches, a problem I'm probably going to look at fixing next...

Thanx,
Aaron
PS: Sorry for the long response, was watching TechTV =P
Also I might not do it tonight, I want to head to bed within the hour, 2:30 AM local time =)