I've just recently bought a new computer, an Athlon x2 4400+ Duel core, and was going to install Slackware 12.0, and have it dual-boot with my windows, as i have done in my previous computer.

Everything installed well, and works well, except for one thing.

I can't connect to the internet.(I've got ADSL), and i use the same network card i used in the previous computer. The problem could be that the motherboards drivers are not installed, and i can't install them because when i put in the drivers disk(and i'm not sure the drivers are compatible with Linux) it gives me a strange message, and refers me to the message bus.


Any help will be appreciated.


Here is the message i recieved:

That seems to be an unrelated issue. The quote sounds like HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) can not automount your disk. That can be fixed by editing /etc/fstab with the correct entry for the diskdrive.

In any case, you are correct. The driver is probably not compatible with Linux. Not too many manufacturers include linux driver disks with their products. What you need to do is locate the model of network card and find a linux driver that supports it. You can login as root and do "lspci |grep -i network" which should spit something out about a network controller. Use this info to Google search for a driver.