I have a little question here.

I connect my Slackware 9.0 machine to the Internet through a switch(hub?), then from the switch to the ADSL modem(with router function built-in), then to the Internet. When I do ifconfig I get the following information:

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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ED:23:57:5F
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:173 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:85073 (83.0 Kb) TX bytes:27204 (26.5 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x3f00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)
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When I installed Slackware 9.0, I set it to use DHCP to probe for the network settings instead of using static IP. But this gives me some warning messages everytime I boot up. Although I can use the Internet without any problems but I feel no good with the warnings. So now I am thinking of setting it back to using static IP instead of DHCP.

How should I do that?

*p/s: I wanted to show you guys the warning messages but I can't find it when I do dmesg... sorry...

Thanks.

As root, try running "netconfig".

http://www.slackware.com/config/network.php

I tried that but if I set the addresses statically, I cannot access webpages through Mozilla. However, when I do "ping 192.168.0.1"(which is the router modem), it works normally. I am wondering if this is because that I set the nameserver wrongly or ... well I have no idea... btw I don't have a nameserver in my network. The switch connects 6 computers but we are just sharing the Internet connection. All computers are working individually.

Thanks for your help
I think I will have to bear with the warning messages for a while

Did you add your ISP's DNS in /etc/resolv.conf
Here is an example of /etc/resolv.conf :

No, I didn't. But I cannot try this now as I just switched to Vine Linux(a japanese distro) because I need full japanese support to complete my reports. I will go back to Slackware after I finish my reports and try the tips you gave me. Thanks a lot.

You know what... after I overwrote Slackware with Vine... I felt like missing something.... So I wiped out FreeBSD on hda3 and put Slackware into it !

I tried the solution you told me and it wonderfully worked!!!
I know ppl at LQ.org are great~!

Thanks