cannot find server at www.google.co.uk
 

I've been running debian for a while and i would like to give slackware a try, i've installed slackware a few times and i can never seem to get an internet connection. I always get server not found, i don't get this problem on other dists like ubuntu, debian, backtrack, slax etc. My computer is a dell dimension e520 with a kingston ethernet card and i'm connected to a bt home hub modem. Any help advise would be appreciated.

This sounds like a DNS issue. Some things you can try, try to ping www.google.co.uk and see if it responds, or you get a time out. If that doesn't work, I suspect it won't, try to ping 72.14.205.104. If that works, that is the IP address I get when I ping google UK, then it is a DNS problem.

I would also guess this BT hub modem is a router as well. You may have to look into the config to see if it will pass DNS addresses back to your system. They get stored in /etc/resolv.conf. You can try storing correct DNS server addresses in there, some distros will overwrite what is there, so it is not permanent. Distros differ where these values get stored so they are not overwritten. I use Mandriva, and on here they go in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 for eth0. You may have to look at some doc to find out where to store the info...

Thanks for the reply, as soon as i can i will look into it a bit more. I have tried all the usual and all the scripts and settings are as they should be.

regards