I'm attempting to make an install of Slackware 13 connect to the internet using an Ethernet card plugged into an Ethernet to wireless converter to use 802.11g. The converter makes it like plugging any Ethernet card directly into my internet gateway/router after the converter is set up to access it once. It works for the same computer when using Windows ME installed on another partition or booting an Ubuntu 8.04.3 live cd. It also works plugging the same converter into another computer with Windows XP. So I doubt the converter is the problem.

I I've checked in rc.modules-2.6.29.6-smp under the Ethernet card section and everything was commented out. In Windows ME it said my Ethernet card is en1207d-tx. Some Googling of that led me to trying to un-comment out /sbin/modprobe 8139too then failing that /sbin/modprobe tulip with no help. I then pulled the card out and the chip said MPX en5038a1. I couldn't determine any other lines to try un-commenting out from that so I put in a 3com 3c905-tx and un-commented out /sbin/modprobe 3c59x with no help.

I should mention that through Googling I came across something that says if the Ethernet card's address starts with 169.254 "it is not connected OR there is no device on your network giving out automatic IP addresses". I went into K Info Center > Network Interfaces with the MPX card in and 169.254 is what it started with by eth0. I looked after putting in the 3com and there was no eth0 at all. I reinstalled the whole Slackware 13 OS then looked again. It showed the 3com card and it also started with 169.254 .

Also, I tried the network setup during installation and netconfig after with no luck.


Please assist.
Thanks


P.S. Through the use of a long phone line cable, I just tried to boot into Slackware 13 and use Firefox while the computer was connected to the gateway directly with an Ethernet cable with no luck.

What do you get with ?

I hope I typed it in right. I was looking at the screen of one computer and typing on another computer 9 feet away.


eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:93:7c:63
inet addr:169.254.27.126 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::260:97ff:fe93:7c63/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:243 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:136 errors:8 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:47580 (46.4KiB) TX bytes:25281 (24.6KiB)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0xd000


lo
Iink encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1741 (1.7 KiB) TX bytes:1741 (1.7 KiB)

Your nic is loaded so it's not a module issue. Start by testing your connection with a static address.
You should be able to ping other devices on your network once you assign an ip. If you have connection then setup your gateway
You should be able to browse at this point. If you want to used dhcp
If the static ip works but you cannot get online with dhcp then there may be an issue with dhcp request from your wireless bridge. Running static is not an issue and IMO is better for small networks. Update your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file with the ip information or add yes to 'USE_DHCP[0]'. If you go static don't forget to update the 'GATEWAY' address in this file.

Hi,

Look at 'Configuring your network in Slackware'.


The above link and others can be found at 'Slackware-Links'. More than just Slackware® links!

Make up a static IP at random?

Should I go into 192.168.0.1 in the browser on my Windows XP computer ethernet wired into my internet gateway and use the gateway address listed under WAN?

Hi,

Have you read what's on the link onebuck posted? Starting HERE and the following pages?

That would teach you a lot. I struggled at first too with Slackware and reading and trying out got me going pretty fast. The advantage of doing it this way is that you'll remember a lot better how it works for future use.

Kind regards,

Eric

Hi EricTRA. No, I didn't read it. I did make sure to bookmark it though. I thought it looked like an excellent learning site but a lot of reading. I am using Slackware to learn but for the short run I was just hoping to get online.

Update:
I went into 192.168.0.1 and looked at the Active User List and one of the two listed was... DHCP 00:0d:0b:af:aa:6f 192.168.0.7 HPPavilionXL775 .

HPPavilionXL775 is the hostname I assigned the Slackware 13's computer when in netconfig.

Hi,

If you follow the wiki then you will likely get online. It's clear therefore easily undersood.

I was reading the alien.slackbook.org onebuck linked to and it recommended slackbasics.org near the beginning. So I was reading Ch.22 Networking Configuration at slackbasics.org and it was talking about IPv4 and IPv6 and I remembered seeing "warn, eth0: using IPV4LL address" during Slackware's startup, So I thought I'd try switching to IPv6. I tried "modprobe ipv6" and it didn't seem to do anything. I then tried "dmesg" and instead of a little readout like I was expecting I got about 13 pages worth. The following appeared many times in the readout...

eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer.
eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status 8601.
diagnostics: net 0cc0 media 8802 dma 0000003b fifo 0000
eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?

Does this mean anything?

EDIT: Maybe I should include that the above isn't the only thing the readout showed but it's what was repeated.

Still haven't read most of onebuck's recommended reading, just getting to it.

Update:

I know what's wrong. It's a hardware problem. After trying everything I could figure out software wise I tried moving the NIC card to the PCI slot the modem/sound card was in and the modem/sound card to the neighboring slot. This made the internet connection work the next time I booted up with Slackware but caused sound problems.