I have installed slakware 10.2
My system for internet is
Belkin 54 g modem router
mercury 10/100 fast ethernet pci card
lan cable between comp and router
router connected to adsl
(all works fine in Windows)
ifconfig gives all zeros
netconfig has been attempted
please help or I will have to go back to W.....

post the o/p of
#ifconfig
and
#lspci

regards

Eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:10:7B:8F
inet addr:192:168:2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU;1500 Metric:1
Rx packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Tx packets 5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7631 (7.4 Kb) TX bytes:1384 (1.3 Kb)
Interupt:11 Base address:0x9800

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:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Tx packets:34 Errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2596 (2.5 Kb) TX bytes:2596 (2.5 Kb)

00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1689 Northbrige (super KB Single Chip)ETC
Gives 2 (two) ethernet controllers
!. ALi Corp M5263 Eth Cont (Rev 48)
2. Ethernet Contr Realtek Semi RTL-8139/8139c/8139c+ (rev 10)

Cheers
PS
In XP I have the Ali disabled and I connect thru the realtek

hello,
so there is not any issue with your NIC. Its working fine as indicated by the o/p of your ifconfig.

But i'm sorry, i don't have experience with modem routers. What i've at my end is an ADSL modem.
Hoping for someone else reply.

regards