I have just installed slack 10.0 on my hp omnibook 5700 ctx. I have a trendnet cardbus network card. It installs just fine, lsmod shows the 8139too driver as being loaded. But when I try to get an IP address via dchpcd it doesn't work. I can see the lights blinking on the net card and I can see my router offering the ip address, but it doesn't accept it for whatever reason. I also tried dhclient but it says it can't find eth0. Am I missing something? By the way I've been trolling this forum for about 3 weeks now trying other solutions I've seen. I.E., I tried setting a hostname in dhpcd, I've tried the "-r" option. I've looked at my iptables config. I've tried setting a static route. All I ever get when I ping my router with the static route is "network unreachable". And yes I did setup the route in the router. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

what dmesg | grep eth0 says ? and ifconfig ? did you try netconfig ?

dmesg correctly identified the network card. ifconfig shows eth0 and lo as being up. There is no ip on eth0. The broadcast is running. When I give myself a static ip, I can ping myself on eth0 and lo but I can't ping anything else except broadcast. My routes list the loopback route, my default gateway, and my localnet.

is this a hardware router or something you setup on a server you have? if so post your /etc/dhcpd.conf file please

No it's a netopia 3346 dsl 4 port router, when I run dhcpcd I see the router sending the DHCP offer. The only problem is that my eth0 doesn't accept the DHCP offer.

Has anyone else had this problem and fixed it? Does anyone know why a network card wouldn't accept a DHCP offer under slackware? If so please post a response. I've went back to Winblows 98 because I just can't seem to get that damn card working correctly under Slackware. I really like Slack, but damn it's a pain.