I did the refresh install of slackware 9.1, before eth0 did work, now after refresh install. i.e www.linuxquestions.org not found.
I'm typing it down from another computer. This computer connected to the same external router/modem for ADSL.

anyway i checked the ifconfig. this what it comes up:

eth0 link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
inet addr:192.168.1.240 Bcast: 192.168.1.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric:1
Rx packets: 1 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame:0
Tx packets: 0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0
collisions: 0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes 251 (251.0b) TX bytes: 0 (0.0b)
interrupt: 10 base address:0xec80

lo Link encap: Local loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
Rx packets: 24 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame:0
Tx packets: 24 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0
collisions: 0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes 1920 (1.8Kb) TX bytes: 1920 (1.8Kb)

Any suggestion?

Thanks

It looks like your eth0 is not detected. It should indicate the MAC address where ifconfig reports HWaddr like so:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:2C:07:61:96

Are you sure that your NIC is still recognized, maybe you should try lspci to see if it is reported there.

oops. yep it got HWaddr 00:0B:05:51:1F

here the lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (brookdale) chipset host bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (brookdale) chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel corp. 82801CA/CAM AC' 97 Audio (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel corp. 82801CA/CAM AC' 97 Modem (02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Tech lnc radeon Mobility M7 LW [radeon mobility 7500]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3com corporation 3c905c-TX/TX-M [tornado] (rev 78)
02:01.0 Cardbus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
02:01.1 Cardbus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420

I used this XP window computer to ping in LAN to Slackware computer, and same for Slackware to ping XP window computer. Now those pings working fine no time outs etc.

Next thing using Slackware ping www.yahoo.com

It comes up: ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com

Any suggestions?

thanks

what about dns? have you set dns or are you using dhcp?

howdy there,

I'm use using static IP address to configure the ethernet. Never used DHCP. Will check around about that DNS.

Thanks

I don't want to hijack the thread, but I am having the same problem. I have a Fujitsu s6010 laptop and I just installed Fedora. Linux recognizes the card, but I cannot even ping my gateway.

I am using a static IP right now but I have tried it with DHCP as well. I am sure that all of my IP addresses are correct, because this computer was working on the same cable with Win XP yesterday.

I love using Unix at school, and I was looking forward to using Linux, but I am stumped here. Help?

Howdy everyone,

Finally solved it, after 2 days searching around.

It was the DNS server wasn't set up. For those who need it, here what to do:

Edit the resolv.conf

search localhost
search mydomain.com
nameserver (gateway IP)
nameserver (primany DNS IP)
nameserver (secondary DNS IP)

save resolv.conf, then close it and open up mozilla, finally it works.

Thanks for your help.

trippeer

what are the outputs of followings?
#ifconfig
#cat /etc/resolv.conf
#route -n